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g=4 §, No 18., May 8, °56,] 


NOTES AND QUERIES. 


345 





LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1856, 





Potes. 


INEDITED NOTES FROM NEWSPAPERS. 


It seems that the Old Pretender continued the | 


practice of his family : 

“ Bologna, April 17.— On Saturday the Princess of 
Piombino paid a visit to the Chevalier de St. George and 
his Lady, who received her very affectionately. Next 
day the P a ender performed the ceremony of Touching 
in his ch: apel.” — Flying Post, April 23rd, i728. 


It is amusing to hear yi I. holding out 
serious hopes of paying off the National Debt. 
He thus replies to Parliament (April, 1728) : 


“The provision made for gradually discharging the 
National Debt is now become so certain and considerable, 
that nothing but some unforeseen event can alter or di- 
minish it; which gives us the fairest prospect of seeing 
the old debts dise harged without any necessity of incur- 
ring new ones.” — Flying Post, April 11, 1728. 


Here we have the earliest history of Sir Robert 
Walpole’s famous Houghton : 


“The Honourable Robert Walpole, Esq., has laid the 
foundation of a seat at Houghton in Norfolk, which, as 
*is said, will cost about 30,0001." — Weekly Journal, 
June 16, 1722. 


It is curious to glance at the mortality of 
London, about half its present weekly average : 


“ Casualties. — Drowned in the River of Thames, at 
8. John at Wapping, 1. Executed,1. Killed by a fall 
from a window at S. James in Westminster, 1. 
away herself at S. Mary at Newington, 1. Overlaid, 2. 
Aged, 4. Convulsions, 118. Fever, 61. Small Pox, 38. 

Christened. — Males, 148. Females, 138. In all, 286, 

Buried. — Males, 226. Females, 240. In all, 466. 

Decreased in the burials this week, 20. 

Whereof have died, 

Under two years of age - 

Between two and five 

Five andten - 

Ten and twenty 

Twenty and thirty 

Thirty and forty 

Forty and fifty - 

Fifty and sixty - 

Sixty and seventy 

Seventy and eighty 

Eighty and ninety 

Ninety and upwards e 

Postboy, April 11, 1728. 

Here is a contribution to the collectors of stage 
coach advertisements : 

“A very good coach and six able horses sets out from 
the Coach and Six Horses in Wood Street, on Thursday 
next the 25th instant, for Bath. Any persons that have 
occasion to go thither, or to any part on that road, shall 
be handsomely accommodated by me, Joun Tea.” 

Daily Courant, April 19, 1728. 

John Tea’s “coach and six able horses,” how- 
ever, had not sufficient attractions for the Princess 
Amelia, who prefers going to Bath in a “chair 
and eight men :” 

“On Saturday the Princess Amelia set out for the 


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Bath, whither her Highness is to be carry’d in a sedan 
chair by eight chairmen, to be relieved in their turns, a 
coach and six horses attending to carry the chairmen 
when not on service. Her Highness dined the same 
evening at Hampton Court, being accompany’d by the 
Princess Royal and the Princess Carolina. Sunday 
morning her Highness set out thence for Windsor, where 
she was to be entertained in the evening; and yesterday 
morning proceeded to Dr. Freind’s house near Reading, 
in Berkshire. A party of the Horse Guards escorted her 
Highness to Hampton vag 5 relieved next day by a 
party of the Blue Guards, ” — Post Boy, April 13, 
1728. 


This whimsical journey, commenced on April 13th, 


terminated on April 19th. 


Mr. Tea was not, it appears, without compe- 
titors : 


“If any persons has [sic] occasion to go to Bath, they 
may be carried in a handsome easy coach, which sets out 
on Saturday next, the 27th instant, at a reasonable rate, 
by Richard Maddock, in Bull Yard, near Aldersgate 
Bars.” — Daily Courant, April 25, 1728, 


The following is the advertisement of the poem 
that drove Mrs. Colonel Brett from Bath : 


“ This day is published. 


+14 The Bastard, a Poem. Inscribed, with all due 
reverence, to Mrs. Bret, once Countess of Macclesfield, 
By Richard Savage, son of the late Earl Rivers. 
> — Ov. Met. 
Printed for T. Worrall, at the Judge’s Head, over against 
S. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet Street; sold by Mr. Graves 
and Mr. Jackson, near 8. James’s House, the Booksellers 
in Westminster Hall, and Mrs. Nutt under the Royal 
Exchange; price 6d.” — Postboy, April 30, 1728. 


* Decet hac dare dona Novercam. 


The transfer of the provinces of North and 
South Carolina to the Crown is thus laconically 
announced ; 


“We hear for certain that a treaty is concluded be- 
tween the Government and the Lords Proprietors of North 
and South Carolina, touching the purchase of the same by 
his Majesty, and that an order is issued to the Treasury 
for payment of the purchase money.” — Postman, May 2, 
1728. 

Quaint sounds the mention of Guy's Hospital, 
for “ Mr. Guy” was only dead four years : 


“Mr. Callaham has ~~ yy his place of apothecary to 
Mr. Guy’s Hospital.” — Ibid. 


Thus the citizens raised the wind for a Mansion 
House: 


“Tt is much talked that the citizens, in their choice of 
sheriffs, will enter this year upon the lisg of those nomi- 
nated by former lord mayors, in order to bring in fines 
enow to build a Mansion House for the lord mayors of 
this city, a thing so much wanted to complete its glory. 
And we hear that their first essay is likely to fall upon 
Mr. Henry Raper, Painter Stainer, and Mr. Edward 
Strong, Mason.’ ’ — Postboy, May 2, 1728. 


“A picket of guards” is generally sent for to 
quell any night brawl or tumult, but here is a 
touch of the mysterious : 


“ The same evening two persons of 


quality having 
quarrelled at a coffee-house in §&, 


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officer of the guard at S. James’s Palace put them both 
under arrest at their respective houses, to prevent any 
mischievous consequences, and sentinels were placed at 
their houses all night.” — Zbid. 


When shopkeepers still dwelt over their shops, 
and “ merchant princes” resided at their places 
of business, there were few offices to be had in the 
city. The shipbrokers, agents, and smaller fry, 
therefore transacted their business at taverns. 
Thus : 

“ Tne Caanpots, Sloop, 
Tobias Jewers, Commander, 


Sails to-morrow morning for Rotterdam, now lying at 





St. Katherine’s to take in goods and passengers, and may 
a P y | 


be spoke with every day at Batson’s Coffee House, over 
against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, or at the Red 
Lyon and Sun, in Swithin’s Alley, or at John Dodmead’s 
at the King of Spain’s Head, near St. Katherine’s Stairs, 
and upon Exchange at Exchange time, and after Change 
at the White Lyon Tavern in Cornhill. 
“ Joun TwyMan, for the Master.” 
Daily Courant, May 7, 1728. 


No wonder that John Twyman’s notions of the 
construction of sentences were rather obscure ! 

A quack medicine vendor lodging at a clergy- 
man’s, and requiring her patients to send a 
hackney coach to fetch her, is not a person to be 
met with every-day, so she shall introduce her- 
self : 

« A Safe and Speedy Remedy to give Ease in the Gout. 
By a plaister that draws out the pain and strengthens the 
part; takes off the fitt in a night’s time. Several persons 
that have made use of it have never had the gout since. 
It is to be had of a gentlewoman that lives at the Rev. 
Mr. Sharp’s in Stepney Churchyard. 

“ N.B. — She goes not to any person out of the neigh- 
bourhood, without a coach being sent for her.” — Daily 
Postboy, Oct. 19, 1728. 

An exuberant Jacobite in his cups gets into 
trouble : 

“One John Rhodes, who was apprehended last week on 
a charge of cursing his Majesty and the Government, as 
also of drinking the Pretender’s health, &c., being ordered 
for tryal on Thursday at Hicks’s Hall, travers’d the same, 
in order to be try’d next sessions, and has given good se- 
curity for his appearance accordingly; and the Justices 
Cooke and Parsons, who committed him, are to manage 
the prosecution.” — Postman, Oct. 17, 1728. 


A part of the revenue of the Bishops of London, 
of the Duchess of Marlborough, &c., was derived 
from the tolls of the Putney and Fulham ferry : 


“ The commissioners for building the new bridge from 
Fulham to Putney have concurred, pursuant to act of 
arliament, to allow the sum of 9000/. to the Dutchess of 
Siaibereush Bishop of London, and others concerned in 
the ferries, on account of the loss they sustain by the said 
bridge being erected.” — did. 
The hackney coaches were so liable to the at- 
tacks of street robbers, that — 


“Whereas a figure (plate) for driving of an hackney 
coach used lately to be sold for about 601, besides paying 
the usual duties to the commissioners for licensing them, 





they are at this time, for the reasons aforesaid, sold for 
311. per figure goodwill.” — Ibid. 

How suggestive is the following of a rule tot- 
tering to its fall: 

“ Lisbon, September 16. — On Monday last arrived here 
four Maltese men-of-war, having on board Count d’Har- 


rach, Ambassador Extraordinary of the Great Master of 
Malta.” — Daily Courant, October 22, 1728. 


The inconvenience which must have been ex- 
perienced by the want of numbers to the houses, 
is apparent in the laborious description of the 
places at which some lately imported sturgeon 
could be had : 


“At a warehouse, the corner of Cross Lane on St. 
Dunstan’s Hill; at the Salmon and Lobster, under the 
Sun Tavern, near the Monument on Fish Street Hill; 
at a shop, the corner of the Market House, over against 
the Bull Head Ale House, in Hungerford Market; at a 
shop the corner of Newport Market, lately Capt. Mad- 
dock’s, where attendance will be daily given.” — Daily 
Courant, Nov. 9, 1728. 

The King of Sardinia appears to have been 
actuated by the same liberal and tolerant spirit 
which distinguishes his present Majesty Victor 
Emanuel, and like him to have resisted the dic- 
tation of the Pope of Rome : 

“ Geneva, Oct. 29, N.S.— Letters from Turin say that 
the Pope has used a world of arguments to persuade the 
King of Sardinia to dismiss out of his service two Pro- 
testant regiments he kept many years; but his Sardinian 
Majesty, instead of complying with the desire of his 
Holiness in that respect, assured the colonels of the same 
that he is fully resolved to keep them on foot.” — Daily 
Postboy, November 12, 1728. 

ALEXANDER ANDREWS. 





ILLUSTRATIONS OF SHAKSPEARE’S “ SEVEN AGES 
OF MAN,” 


I have been exceedingly interested in the “ Tl- 
lustrations of Shakspeare” which from time to 
time have appeared in your invaluable periodical. 
The following will perhaps be new to some of 
your readers, and will add one proof more to the 
fact, that the “ Seven Ages of Man” have been a 
most fertile subject. It is from the pen of Jean 
de Courey, a trouvére, from the neighbourhood of 
Falaise, in Normandy, who wrote early in the 
fifteenth century. Besides some historical work, 
he wrote a long poem, called “Le Chemin de 
Vaitlance, containing instructions for young nobles 
in war, religion, manners, morals, &c., abounding 
in many amusing descriptions of the usages and 
customs of the time. A young disciple takes a 
long journey, and meets with many temptations 
and difficulties on his way to “ Vaillance.” The 
* World” detains him, conducts him to his palace, 
and shows him, in one of the rooms, seven pictures, 
representing the seven ages of man, which are 
called Enfance; Puéritie; Adolescence ; Jeunesse ; 











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Age mir ; Vieillesse,and Décrépitude. The poem 
is of considerable length, and the descriptions of 
each picture much too long to be given here. 
Two fragments will show the great resemblance 
between the way in which he and Shakspeare 
describe the periods in question. The first is part 
of the description of “ Puéritie,” or from seven 
to fifteen years : 


“ Une pelote en sa main 
De laquelle soir et matin 
EI se jouoit par druerie, 
Querant d’enfans la compaignie : 
Comment & !’école aloit, 
Et souvent chantoit et baloit 
Se gouvernoit sans terminer 
Et se jouoit & toupiner, — 
A croier avec ses semblables, 
Et conter choses delitables 
A ceulz qui de son temps estoit 
Et a lui souvent s’esbatoient ; 
Par ces chemins, par ces voyes 
Queroient des nids par les huyes 
Faisoient chapeaulz par ces bocages, 
Et se gisoient ces ombrages, 
Faisans porée de fleurettes, 
Et d’herbes verdes nouvelletes, 
Puis portaient armes et bougons, 
Cueilloient feugitres et jous, 
Pour soulz euls faire la jonchée, 
Et jouoient a chiere liée. 
Aux barres, au tiers, & la quille 
Puis rit, et sault, puis court et brille, &c. &c.” 


The following is part of the description of 
“ Adolescence,” or from fifteen to twenty-five 
years of age: 


“Sy fut pour traite gentement 
Com elle aime esbatement, 
Soulas, joie, et druerie 
Voulant mener joyeuse vie 
Soller, luitier et soy esbatre 
La sepmaine trois fois ou quatre 
Si estait fait son vestement 
De drap vert joliettement, 
Et or cainture et tassette, 
Menu clouée joliette. 
Sollers lachiez, chausses bien faites 
Gans en ses mains beaulz et honnestes, 
Les cheveslz blons et deliez 
D’un grand vert chapel dessuz liez: 
Et comme elle vouloit hanter, 
Et souvent causer et chanter, 
Puis plan chant, puis le contrepoint, 
En celle n’ent de garde point 
Com el veult fleuter et harper, 
A chascun se vouloit harper 
S’y chevaulchoit joliement 
L’espervier portant liement 
En gibiers pour soy des duire, 
Lui semblait qu’el fust plus grant sire 
Quatre fois qu’el n’avoit vaillant: 
S’y aloit jouant et saillant ;” &c. &c, 

Abbé de la Rue in his Essais historiques sur les 
Bardes, les Jongleurs et les Trouvéres, gives some 
account of De Courcy and his works. It appears 
there is but one copy of Le Chemin de Vaillance 
known to exist, and that is to be found in the 





British Museum, King’s MSS., No. 14. E. Il. I 
found it in excellent preservation and beautifully 
illuminated, Those who are interested in those 
“bards” would find an hour agreeably spent in 
turning over its antiquated pages. 


. E. Witxkunson. 
Notting Hill Square. 





CAMBRIDGE JEU D'ESPRIT. 

The following jeu d’esprit was circulated in Cambridge 
at the time when the Prince Consort was elected Chan- 
cellor of the University; the other candidate being the 
Earl Powis. It completely deceived the editor of the 
paper to whom it was addressed, who had no notion that 
he was giving currency to an election squib. There is 
nothing in it to give offence to any one, and it really de- 
serves to be embalmed in “N. & Q.” It was attributed 
(I believe correctly) to a Fellow of King’s of high clas- 
sical reputation. CANTAB. 

N. B. The notes are mine. 


A FRAGMENT TOUCHING THE LYCEUM. 
(To the Editor of -) 

Sm,—In an old English author, who (like 
Burton, in his Anatomy of Melancholy), abounds 
in passages of which the diction is cast in so an- 
tique a mould, that it is difficult to tell whether 
they were originally English, or were literally 
translated from the Greek, I find the following 
curious fragment. A learned friend has conjec- 
tured it to be a translation from Theophrastus, 
but it seems to myself to savour more of the style 
of Eudemus ; and it looks exceedingly like a pas- 
sage from one of the lost books of the Eudemian 
Ethics. Altogether, if the pressure of contem- 
porary politics will allow you to insert it, I think 
it would be found full of interest at the present 
moment to the learned world. The author might 
seem to be of the Cynical School; but the names 
of persons, all nearly contemporary, seem to fix it 
clearly on a Peripatetic teacher. 

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
Rusirer CANTABRIGIENSIS. 





“ Concerning literary men, why they should evermore 
be mercenary, and whether they be so, or whether this be 
a calumny of the multitude, it follows to inquire. Is it 
that, while they say excellent things of the nobleness 
of virtue and the dignity of science, they do not believe 
in them themselves, but repeat what is set down, like 
actors in the mimes? This were altogether base. Or is 
it that, being poor, and not having a sufficiency of daily 
things, neither gold in their souls, as Plato said, they are 
dragged away, like the incontinent, to act against their 
will the part of servile flatterers? This, again, were 
pitiable. Or is it rather that, where virtue and science 
are studied, not for the sake of good living, but for a 
livelihood, they make the intellect sharp, but leave the 
practical part of the soul no whit the better? Now we see 
this, both in other cases, and especially in Academies, 
where men talk like philosophers, but live like sycophants, 
bowing down greatly to princes. Though some have 
thought this was rather the fault of the elder and craftier 
masters, who wheedle or compel the more generous and 











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simpler sort. As, in truth, was seen in the crown of the 
Lyceum, which was by common consent to be given to 
the most worthy citizen. For this, the larger and better 

rt would fain have offered to Puocton; who was both 
n other respects worthy, and had defended the tomb of 
Aristotle against Demades and his rabble.* 

“ But some of the elder, and more worldly wise, among 
whom were Purancinust and Hrpersorevs,{ said 
among themselves: ‘ Will it not be better to give the 
crown to ANonetus, who, being rich, and the friend of 
Artemisia, will procure us much good? Did not Arte- 
MISIA give a prize to Turopectrus? and if we choose 
Anonetvs, will she not send us trees for our groves, and 
chairs for our old men, and also Persian mitres? Con- 
trarywise, if we give the crown to Procton, we shall do 
what is right indeed, but utterly unprofitable; and be 
praised only of the simpler sort of men.’ 

“Thus saying, the elder men appeared to themselves 
wise, and told the scholars it was seemly to be unani- 
mous; so that many consented in the evening to that 
which in the morning they had grievously condemned. 
So the cunningness of the few prevailed against the sim- 

licity of the many, which loveth mostly to be generous. 

me, however, murmured and thought it base; for this 
Anonetvus, though eminent in wealth, and in the favour 
of ArTEMIsIA, was, in the matters of the Lyceum, that 
which his name declares.” * . 7 
[Cetera desunt. } 





THE MOON CONTROVERSY. 


As the learned editor of the Museum of science 
and art, in adverting to the moon controversy, 
admits that “the point requires more clear expo- 
sition than it has yet received,” I shall set aside 
certain scruples which have hitherto withheld me, 
and hazard some brief remarks on this notable 
theme. I am the more disposed thereto, it — 
my intention to treat it chiefly as a phraseologica 
question. 

I must first show how the point in debate has 
been stated by some of the most eminent modern 
astronomers : 

“La lune tourne véritablement sur elle-méme d’un 
mouvement uniforme en vingt-sept jours et demi; mais 
comme la durée de sa rotation est égale & celle de sa révo- 
lution autour de nous, elle nous présente tofijours la méme 
face.” — M. de La Lanpe, 1762. 

“Le disque lunaire présente an grand nombre de taches 
invariables que l’on a observées et décrites avec soin. 
Elles nous montrent que cet astre dirige toujours vers 
nous A peu prés le méme hémisphére; il tourne donc sur 
lui-méme, dans un temps égal & celui de sa révolution 
autour de la terre.” — Le marquis de Laptace, 1824. 

“The lunar summer and winter arise, in fact, from the 
rotation of the moon on its own axis, the period of which 
rotation is exactly equal to its sidereal revolution about 
the earth.” — Sir John F. W. Herscnet, 1833. 

The earth makes three hundred and sixty-five 
rotations on its axis in the course of one revo- 





* This is an allusion to Lord Powis’s successful defence 
of the Welsh Bishopricks. 
Dr. French, late Master of Jesus College. 
f A distinguished living Head, easily recognised by all 
Cantabs. 





lution round the sun. The rotation on its axis is 
therefore a distinct motion from its revolution in 
its orbit. 

The rotation of the moon on its axis is exactly 
equal, as astronomers assure us, to the period of 
its revolution round the earth. What proves the 
rotation to be a distinct motion? I cannot so 
consider it, and therefore doubt the propriety of 
describing it in the same terms. I should be in- 
clined to express it thus: The moon has no other 
rotation on its axis than that which is the conse- 
quence of the revolution of a sphere which always 
presents the same face to the centre of its orbit. 

If the moon had no rotation on its axis, a line 
drawn from its centre through a given meridian 
line on its circumference would always point to- 
wards the same fixed star. The reverse is the 
fact —and it proves the fallacy of the novel con- 
ceit of non-rotation. 

A comparison of the above extracts must con- 
firm the startling remark of doctor Lardner. La 
Lande states that the moon always presents the 
same face to us, because the period of its rotation 
is equal to that of its revolution round the earth ; 
Laplace infers its rotation, and the coincidence of 
its rotation and revolution, because it always pre- 
sents the same face to us; and Herschel, while 
he admits the remarkable coincidence of the two 

riods, treats the point incidentally, in a specu- 
ation on the physical constitution of the moon. 
A fact so curious should have been circumstan- 
tially described : it was suited to the philosophic 
genius of a Herschel. 

An illustration of this question has been given 
by a reference to the Peak of Teneriffe. I cannot 
perceive its aptness. Every object on the surface 
of the earth rotates — but not on its own axis. 

Here is my homely demonstration of the points 
in dispute — an experimental demonstration. 
Take an orange; pass through it a wire in the 
plane of its imaginary equator ; move the orange 
round a circle with the wire parallel to one side of 
the room. It will make the revolution in its orbit 
without any rotation on its axis. Then move the 
orange round the circle with one end of the wire 
pointed to its centre. When it has made one 
revolution in its orbit it will have made one rota- 
tion on its axis. It is the inevitable consequence 
of such orbicular motion. Botton Corner. 

The Terrace, Barnes, 28th April. 





NOTES ON THE FLEUR-DE-LIS. 
(Continued from p. 330.) 


1622. Lionel, L. Cranfield, E. of Middlesex, on a pale 
az., 3 Fs.-d.-L., or. 
a 1622. John, Ld. Digby, E. of Bristol, a F.-d.-L. arg., 
Cc. 
This seems the first instance of a single F,-d.-L., &c., 














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except in the case of the lords mayor, in one not of royal 
alliance. 


1624. Sir Walter Cope of Kensington, Kt., 3 Fs.-d.-L. 


1626. Sir Cuthbert Aket, Ld. Mr, 3 Fa-d.-L. arg. 
1627. Sir Thos. Bellasis, Ld. Faleonberg (or bridge), 
arg. a chevron gu. between 3 Fs.-d.-L. az. 

1640. Hen. D. of Gloucester, third son of Chas. I., Fr. 
and Eng. 

7 1643. Jas. D. of York, second son of Chas. L, Fr. and 
Eng. 

1646. Edm. Sheffield, E. of Moultgrave, married Lady 
El. Cranfield, daughter of Lionel, &. of Middlesex. Her 
arms, or, on a pale az., 3 Fs.-d.-L. or. 

1647. Sir John Guise, Ld. Mr., a F.-de.-L. 

1653. John Fowke, Esq., Ld. Mr., vert. a F.-d.-L. arg. 

1660. Chas. LI. ordered that the son and heir apparent 
to the Crown should wear a golden coronet of crosses 
patée and Fs.-d.-L.; also that the D. of York, and all the 
immediate sons and brothers of the Kings and Queens ot 
England, should wear the same, but that all their sons 
respectively, having the title of Dukes, should wear 
their coronets of cr. pal. and strawberry leaves only, as 
the Dukes not of blood royal. 

1660. Wm. Seymour, M. of Hertford and D. of Somer- 
set, or, on a pale gu. between 6 Fs.-d.-L. az., &c. 

1661. Chas. of York, eldest son of Jas., D. of York, called 
D. of Cambridge, Fr. and Eng. 

1663. Jas. Fitzroy, D. of Monmouth and Buccleugh, 
Fr. and Eng. (3 Fs.-d.-L.) 

1672. Hen. Fitz-Roy, D. ef Grafton, arms of Chas, IT. 

1674. George Fitz-Roy, third natural son of Chas. II. 
His arms. 

1674. Thos. Lennard, Ld. Dacre, E. of Sussex, married 
Anne Fitz-Roy, eldest daughter of Dss. of Cleveland, or, 
on a fess. gu., 3 Fs.-d.-L. or. 

1674. Murray, E. of Dysart, R. T. or. 

1674. John Maitland, D. of Lauderdale, R. T. 

1675. Chas. Lenos, D. of Richmond, only son of Dss. of 
Aubigny by Chas. IL. His father’s arms. 

1679. Rob. Parson, E. of Yarmouth, arg. 6 Fs.-d.-L. 


or. 


az. 
1680. Eliz. Baytfing, Lady Dacre, Css. of Shepey, or, 
on a fess. az., 3 I's.-d.-L. or. 

1682. Hen. Somerset, D. of Beaufort, 1 and 4, Fr. and 
Eng, 3 Fs.-d.-L. 

1683. Sir Francis North, B. Guildford, az. L. P. or, be- 
tween 3 Fs.-d.-L. arg. 

1686. Jas. Fitzjames, D. of Berwick, natural son of 
Jas. IL, 1 and 4, Fr. and Eng. 

1694. Sir W. Ashurst. Ld. Mr. g. a cross engrailed be- 
tween 4 Fs.-d.-L. arg. 

1702. Philip Sydney, V. Lisle, E. of Leicester, married 
Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Rob. Reeves of 
Twayte (Suffolk), Bt., sa. on a chevron between 3 Fs.-d.- 
L. or., 3 pheons, az. 

1706. Queen Anne grants to Sir Cloudesley Shovel a 
chevron between 2 Fs.-de.-L. in chief, and a crescent in 
base, as an augmentation, to denote two victories over the 
French and one over the Turks. 

1706. Sidney, E. of Godolphin, bears, gu. an eagle with 
two heads displayed between 3 Fs.-d.-L. arg. 

1708. Jas. Douglas, D. of Queensberry, R. T. 
ant Chas. Fitz-Roy, E. of Southampton, arms of 

1as. IT, 

1709. Hen. Howard, E. of Suffolk, married, secondly, 
Lady Henrietta Somerset, daughter of Hen., D. of Beau- 
fort. Her arms, Fr. and Eng. quart. 

1711. Rob. Shirley, E. Ferrers, (2 and 3) Fr. and Eng. 
. 1714. Sir Sam. Stanier, Ld, Mr., 2 and 3 or, a F.-d.- 

. 8a. 





1726. Prince Will. Aug., D. of Cumberland. Arms of 
George I. 

1730. Sir Rob. Raymond, B. Raymond, arg. on a chief, 
or, a rose between 2 Fs.-dL. gu. 

1733. John Barber, Esq., Ld. Mr., erm, a chevron or, 
cottised gu. between 3 Fs.-d.-L. gu. 

1742. Archdale (for Montgomery), 1 and 4, 3 Fs.-d.-L. 
or (B.) 

1750. Vere Beauclerk, Ld. Vere, 1 and 4, Fr. and Eng. 

1750. Francis Seymour Conway, E. of Hertford, 1 and 
4 or, on a pile, gu. between 6 Fs,-d.-L. az., 3 Ls. P. G. or, 
being a coat of augmentation. 

1754. Edm. Ironside, Esq., Ld. Mr., a cross tressured 
with half F.-d.-L. or. 

1756. Stephen Fox, Ld. Ilchester, or, on a canton, az., 
a F.-d.-L. or., an augmentation granted by Chas. II. 

1762. Caroline Fox, Lady Holland, as the D. of Rich- 
mond, Fr, and Eng. 

1763. Hen. Fox, Ld. Holland, on a canton, az, a F.-d.- 


. Or. 

1764. W. H., D. of Gloucester, second brother of 
George III., as the P. of Wales, the middle one of 5 
points to the label, charged with a F.-d.-L. az. 

1765. Hen. Digby, Ld. Dighy, az. a F.-d.-L. arg. 

1766. P. Hen. Fred., D. of Cumberland, third brother 
of Geo. IIL, as D. of Gloucester. 

1766. Thos. Taylor, E. Bective, erm. on chief, gu. a F.- 
d -L. between 2 boars’ heads erect, gu. 


Thus ends the chronological catalogue of those 
whom Heylin has recorded as bearing the royal 
charges of fleurs-de-lis up to the last date. 

Among the extinct baronies he adds the follow- 
ing names : 

Bonviile, s. a bend flory and a F,-d.-L. or. 

Bromilete, s. a bend Fl. and C. or. 

Hilton, arg. 2 bars, az. and F.-d.-L, or. 

He also supplies, from Dugdale’s Baronage, 
these names : 

Aguillon, g. a F.-d.-L. arg. 

Borough, az. 3 Fs.-d.-L. erm. 

D. Eivile, on a chevron s. a F.-d.-L. or. . 

Mortimer of Attilbergh, or, semée of Fs.-d.-L. sa. (4. 3. 
2. 1.) 

Raymond, a rose between 2 Fs.-d.-L. gu. 


We now proceed to the second catalogue above 
named (II.), and revert to the early period of the 
Crusades. Of the English who were present in 
the first Crusade (1096—1100), we find in the 
interesting work of Mr. Dansey that the following 
bore the fleur-de-lis : 

Walter de St. Valery, a noble Norman, holding lands 
in England, az. fretty, or, semée, 8 Fs.-d.-L., 8 half do. 

Le Sire de Thilly, and John and Ferrand Tilly, or, & 
F.-d.-L. gu. ; 

Le Sire de Mortimer, barry of 6, or and vert., semée de 
Fs.-d.- L. 

William aux Espaulls, gu. a F.-d.-L. or. 

Rob. and Peter d’Argenies, gu. a F.-d.-L. arg. 

Abaciers de Hommet, arg, 3 Fs.-d.-L. gu. 

Will. de Rochefort, arg. 3 Fs.-d.-L. gu. 

Pierre de la Meauffe, vert, 3 Fs.-d.-L, or. 

Rich. de Condey, az. a F.-d.-L. arg. 

John le Bouteller, erm. a F.-d.-L. gu. 

Nicholas Mardar, gu. a F.-d.-L. arg. 7 

John de Recuchon, barry of 6, or and vert, semée of Fs.- 
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Will. Collard, gu. a F.-d.-L. arg. 
John de Mortimer, or, semée de Fs,-d.-L. sa. 


In the third Crusade, under Richard I. (1190— 
1192), the following occur :* 


Henry de Cobeham, of old baronial family, field, semé 
de Fs.-d.-L. or, (12.) (Sir Harris Nicolas’ Roll gives 3 
Fs.-d.-L. arg.) 

John de Cantelou, or Cantiloupe, 3 leopards’ heads, jes- 
sant Fs,-d.-L. 

Adam de Gordon, a Norman settler in Scotland, gu. 3 
heads Fl. and C. 

Le Sire d’Umfraville, gu. 5 Fs.-d.-L. crusule, or. 

Roger Plowden received the augmentation of 2 Fs.-d.-L. 
for gallantry at the siege of Acre, az. a fesse dancetté, 
jessant 2 Fs.-d.-L. or. 

Radulf Normanville, arg. a demi F.-d.-L. or, on a fesse, 


u. 
. Rob, Cokefield, gu. a F.-d.-L. erm. 
Rob. Agilon, gu. a F.-d.-L. arg. 
Will. Agilon, az. a F.-d.-L. or. 
Will. Burblynge, arg. 3 Fs.-d.-L. sa. 
Will. de Peyfrer, arg. semé de Fs.-d.-L. 
Le Sire de Baspes, on a chief, a F.-d.-L. sa. 


In the seventh and last Crusade, under Prince 
Edward, 1269, are, — 


Henry de Burghull, az. fretty arg. holding a F.-d.-L. 


az. 
John de Gayton, chamber valet to P. Edward, arg. a 
fesse, gu., 6 F.-d.-L. gu. 
©. Hi. &. 


(To be continued.) 





ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAY. 


“ The Quaker’s Elegy on the Death of Charles, late King 
of England. 


(Written by W. P., a sincere Lover of Charles and James, 
1685.) 


“ What wondrous Change in Waking do I find! 
For a strange Something do’s my Sense unbind ; 
Truth has possest my Darken’d Soul all o’re 
With an unusual Light not known before, 
And doth inform me that some Star is gone 
From whose kind influence we had Life alone; 
No sooner had this Stranger seiz’d my Soul, 
But Rachel knockt to raise me from my Bed, 
And with a Voice of Sorrow did condole 
The loss of Charles, whom she declar’d was Dead. 
Charles do’st thou mean, we King of England call, 
That liv’d within the Mansion of White-hall ? 
Yea—’Tis too true—Confusion’s in the street 
Distraction in the face of all we meet ; 
As if the Chain of Causes now did break, 
And we all saw the Dreadfull Day of Doom ; 
No Tongue, but Faces, Eyes, and Actions speak ; 
They walk like men just risen from a Tomb. 
With that my Garments I in haste put on, 
And in the Spirit mutter’d many a groan. 
Whilst I in this disorder’d Gesture move, 
Some Friends of mine, that Charles did always Love, 
With Zealous hast approacht me, full of Tears, 
Unmanly Actions caus’d from jealous Fears. 
The City-Wives the Book of Martyrs Read, 
And with those Thoughts their easie Husbands Lead ; 





They talk of Christians Spitchcockt, Roasted, Broil’d, 
Of Martyr’d Consciences in Smithfield Fire, 
With new found Deaths their Thoughts are Toyl’d, 
Their’s nought but Treason does their Hearts inspire. 
But we do that opinion disallow, 
And for the future will to Cesar bow. 
Entering dispute precisely we run o’re 
The Signal Graces He to us had shown 
(For we Dissented on a different Score, 
Though we withdrew, we ne’re oppos’d the Crown), 
By oft forgiving, Wooing us to be, 
By His Example, joyn’d in Harmony 
With England’s Church and Truths Integrity : 
Though finding us a stiff Misguided Crew, 
Yet daily still His Love he did renew, 
And moderates the Rigour of the Law, 
Which our selfwill doth hourly on us Draw; 
And doth consent the Pensylvanian Shore, 
We may possess, and tempt his Laws no more. 
As Saul among the Prophets, here Charles stood, 
But greater far, being exquisitely Good : 
Anointed both, yet Charles the Lawrel got, 
He Moses’s Meekness had, Saul had it not: 
Saul as a scourge was to his people giv’n, 
Charles as a Guardian Angel sent from Heav’n. 
For us to speak thy praise or shew thy worth, 
Which is above the reach of Flattery, 
Is much too hard for a weak Holderforth : 
None but thy Brother e’re could equal thee. 
We never knew, whilst we the Wealth Injoy’d 
The Value of our all forgiving Prince, 
Untill the Tyrant Death our hopes Destroy’d, 
To place him on a Throne far, far, from hence, 
In the Immortal Mansion of the Sun, 
Where he receives a never fading Crown ; 
And left his Earthly to a Prince, whose Fame 
Shall fear, and tremble at his Name; 
The Second James his Brother and his Friend ; 
Though Factious Crouds did for his Right contend, 
To hang it o’re a Disobedient Head, 
Whom with a Crown these Tantalize awhile 
As Richard they, when Oliver was dead, 
Proclaim the Man, but at the Bubble smile. 
We take not Absalom’s, but David's part ; 
Nor no Achitophell, with his false Art, 
Nay joyn’d with Zimries Poyson, ever shall 
Like the disloyal Corah make us fall. 
Had we but Lordships in a fertile Plain, 
To inable us in Parliament to set, 
Our Native true Obedience we’d regain, 
By Loyal Votes that want Example yet. 
In Wisdom, Valour, Conduct, High Renown 
Thou all thy Ancestors that wore this Crown, 
Exceedst in every Excellence as far 
As Mid-day Sun out-shines a Mid-night Star; 
To those we no Addition e’re cou’d give 
But we such heaps of Treasure would bestow 
That Thou to so much Splendour should’st arrive 
As Times Record to Mortals can not show. 
Accept, O Mighty James, our Pray’rs the while; 
May Years of Peace and Plenty on Thee smile ; 
May Fortune always wait Thee with Success, 
And Loyal Subjects numberless increase ; 
May many Sons Thy Royal Consort bear, 
Endow’d with Both your Princely Virtues here 
And Heirs to Glory when You change Your Sphere; 
And may this Crown still flourish in Thy Name, 
Till Time shall cease, and all the World expire, 
May all Thy Foes become ignobdly tame. 
But may’st Thou always have Thy Princely hearts 
desire. 





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Pardon us James, who must to Thee declare 

*Twas Loyal Zeal made us presume thus far, 

We ne’re were Poets upon Oliver.” 

No. 1163. of the Collection of Proclamations, 
§¢c., presented to the Chetham Library, Man- 
chester, by James O. Halliwell, Esq., F.R.S. 

BrsuioTtHecar. CHETHAM. 





flinor Notes. 


Proclamation issued by King Charles I., on the 
occasion of his having concluded a Treaty of Peace 
with Spain in 1630.— This may at the present 
moment be perused with pleasure by many of the 
readers of “ N. &. Q.” Henry Kensinaton. 

“ By the King. 

“Whereas it is found meete and expedient, upon 
weighty considerations moued to His Majestie, by the in- 
tervention of some of His Friends, to lay aside hostility 
with the King of Spaine, and so to remooue by faire and 
peaceable means the cause of the Warre, which hath bred 
interruption to the Amity betwixt the two Crownes, 
upon assurance given His Majestie hereof by that King. 
His most Excellent Majestie hath condescended to renew 
the ancient Amity and good intelligence betwixt y* two 
Crowns, their Realmes, Countreys, Dominions, Vassals, 
and Subjects; And doeth accordingly make knowen to all 
His louing people, that the sayd Peace and Friendship 
being so established, not onely all Hostilitie and Warre is 
to cease on both sides from henceforward, But also the 
former Trade and Commerce, as it stoode in the vse and 
observance of the Treatie, made by His Majestie’s blessed 
Father, is restored and confirmed betweene the sayd 
Kings, their Kingdomes, Territories, and Subjects, as well 
by Land as Sea and Fresh-waters. 

“ Which His Majestie hath thought fit to declare unto 
all manner of his Subjects, of whatsoever estate they be, 
strictly charging and commanding them to obserue and 
accomplish all that hereunto belongeth, As it is certainly 
promised to be published on the side of the King of 
Spaine, the Date of these Presents. 

“Giuen at His Majesties Palace of Westminster, 
the fifth day of December, in the sixt yeere 
of His Majisties Reigne. 

“God Save the King.” 


Invention of Postage Stamps. — 


“ The invention of postage stamps is generally ascribed 
to the English, and certainly they were first brought into 
use in England in 1839. But a Stockholm paper, “The 
Fryskitten, says that so far back as 1823, a Swedish officer, 
Lieut. Trekenber, of the artillery, petitioned the Chamber 
of Nobles to propose to the government to issue stamped 
paper specially destined to serve for envelopes for prepaid 
letters. The fact, it adds, is duly recorded in the minutes 
of the Chamber under date of the 23rd March, 1823. 





The proposition was warmly supported by Count de | 


Schwerin, on the ground that it would be both convenient 
to the public and the Post Office, but it was rejected by a 
large majority.” — Galignani, April 28, 1856. 

W. W. 


Malta. 


Wordsworth v. Campbell, — Reading the other 
day the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers, I was sur- 
prised by a note of the editor, asserting that 


Wordsworth declared the lines in Campbell’s 
Pleasures of Hope, — 
“ Where Andes, giant of the western star, 

With meteor-standard to the winds unrurl’d, 

Looks from his throne of clouds o’er half the world,” 
to be sheer nonsense ; and that he asks “ What 
has a giant to do with a star ? and what is a meteor- 
standard?” And adding that Professor Wilson, 
though avowing his admiration of the “ splendid ” 
passage, swore that he could not tell what it 
meant. 

Surely both Wordsworth and Wilson were ig- 
norant of geography, or they would have known 
that the Andes were the giant mountains of the 
western world; and that Cotopaxi, one of their 
highest peaks, being a voleano, might poetically 
be said to unfurl its meteor-standard to the winds. 

It is evident that Wilson appreciated the beauty 
of the passage, though he would not trouble him- 
self to explain it; and the criticism of Words- 
worth is what might have been expected from a 
poet of his peculiar style. M. E. F. 


Surgical Operations under Chloroform, &c.— 
Has the following passage been “ noted” in your 
pages? If not, it would be curious to non-medical 
readers, like myself, to know whether opium, or 
what is supposed to have been made use of more 
than two hundred years ago by the “ old surgeons,” 
“who, ere they show their art, cast one asleep, 
then cut the diseas’d part,” &c.; and whether 
the use of ether, and subsequently of chloroform, 
in surgical operations, is merely a revival in these 
enlightened days of some heretofore forgotten 
practice of the “ dark ages,” or whether it is really 
something new ? 

Women beware Women, tragedy, by Thos. Mid- 
dleton, first printed 1657, Act IV. Sc. 1.: 

“ Hippolito. Yes, my lord, 

I make no doubt, as I shall take the course, 
Which she shall never know till it be acted ; 
And, when she wakes to honour, then she’ll thank me for’t. 
I'll imitate the pities of old surgeons 
To this lost limb; who, ere they show their art, 
Cast one asleep, then cut the diseas’d part ; 
So, out of love to her I pity most, 
She shall not feel him going till he’s lost ; 
Then she'll commend the cure.” 
S. H. H. 

The last Gibbet in England. — As “N. & Q.” 
will be a work of reference hereafter, may not the 
following notice, which appeared in a recent num- 
ber of The Examiner, claim a remembrance ? 

“ A few days ago, the last gibbet erected in England 
was demolished by the workmen employed in making 
the extensive docks for the North Eastern Railway Com- 
pany, upon Jarrow Stoke, on the Tyne.” 

W. W. 


Malta. 


A Slavian (Glagalit) Copy of “ Beneficium 
Christi, 1563” (1* S. x. 384. 406. 447.; xii. 75.) 
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existed no original copy of the rare work, De 
Beneficio Christi, reprinted in 1847; and some 
even went so far as to entirely doubt its au- 
thenticity. Lately a copy has been found in | 
St. John’s College, Cambridge. But it became | 
also known, that twenty years after the first | 
Italian edition, the Slavian printing office of Hans | 
Ungnad, of Souneg, in Carinthia, the well-known | 
promoter of Protestantism amongst the South 
Slavian tribes, had issued, at Stuttgardt, a trans- 
lation of the Beneficium Christi in the Chorwat | 
(Croat) language, with Glagalitic letters. Re- 
searches being duly directed, a copy of this work 
(1563) was found in the great library at Stutt- 
gardt, Besides, another Italian copy, different 
from that of Cambridge, was also discovered. The 
title of this work (printed in the smallest 18mo., 
size) runs thus: 

“ Trattato utilissimo del Beneficio di Gieusu Christo 
Crocifisso, verso i Christiani. Venetijs apud Philippam 
Stagninum. Anno D° mpx yt.” 

From the work of Schnurrer, Slavischer Biich- 
erdruck in Wirtenberg im 16%" Jahrhundurt, we 
gather an additional proof that the great Dansla- 
vian Era was only temporarily suppressed then 
by our rulers. D, J. Lorsxy, Danslave. 


Bacon as a Reward of Connubial Felicity. —I 
forward a paragraph quoted in The Atheneum's 
review of Ewbank’s Life in Brazil, which seems 
worth transferring to the columns of “ N. & Q.:” 


“A word on ‘heavenly bacon,” toucinho do ceo—a 
species of light pudding, composed of almond-paste, eggs, 
sugar, butter, and a spoonful or two of flour — because its | 
name reminds one of olden times. The glorification of 
bacon is of very ancient date, and arose partly from pre- 
vailing enmity to Jews, but oftener from the estima- 
tion in which it was held. The most popular and esteemed | 
of carneous aliments, it was given as rewards for rural, | 
and particularly for connubial virtues. El tocino del 
Paraiso el casudo no anepiso — Bacon of Paradise for the | 
married who repent not — is a medieval proverb.” 


The antiquary who would investigate the origin 
of the Dunmow Flitch will find in this medieval | 
proverb a hint worth working out. M.N.S. 





Queries. 
COWPER’S LADY AUSTEN. | 


Will any of your readers tell me anything of | 
this lady beyond what is to be found in Hayley’s | 
and Southey’s Lives of the poet ? 

Hayley tells us that the reason of ber leaving 
Olney was her disappointment that Cowper did | 
not marry her, and says that he derived this in- | 
formation from Lady Austen herself. Southey | 
(vol. ii. p. 62, edition 1835) endeavours entirely | 
to do away with this idea, and, in its place, only 
tells us that “ Lady Austen exacted attentions 





which it became inconvenient or irksome (to Cow- 
per) to pay.” 

This is in speaking of the second and final 
rupture which severed the connection between 
them. 

In a note to page 313 of volume i., Southey 
quotes the following sentence from Hayley : 

“ On this principle I have declined to print some letters, 
which entered more than I think the public ought to 
enter into the history of a trifling feminine discord, that 
disturbed the perfect harmony of the happy trio at Olney 
when Lady Austen and Mrs, Unwin were the united in- 
spirers of the poet.” 

Southey adds that the rule which Hayley has 
here laid down was applicable only during the 
life of Lady Austen. 

Are these letters in existence? They would 
surely tell us the real state of the case; but, 
in their absence, we may be allowed to indulge 
the romance which Hayley’s Life bequeathed to 
us—a romance which has certainly sufficient 
foundation in the great personal beauty of Lad 
Austen — in the evidently great attraction which 
existed almost at first sight between herself and 
the poet —in the quarrel between the two ladies, 
the sudden rupture of the so great intimacy, and 
in Lady Austen's avowal of the cause of the rup- 
ture to Hayley. S. Sinceton, 

Greenwich. 





Minor Queries, 


Nicholas Breakspeare. — Looking casually 
through a back volume of “ N. & Q.,” I cast my 
eyes on a passage relative to Adrian IV., the 
solitary English pope, which reminded me that I 
had often intended to ask a small space in your 
valuable periodical for the following account of 
a oan of the pope’s. When I was a lad, 
some fifty years since, my mother had a servant 


| who was a native of Brill-on-the-Hill, in Buck- 
| inghamshire, the reputed birthplace of Nicholas 


Breakspeare, afterwards known as Adrian 1V. 
She was married to aman of the name of Nicholas 
Breakspeare, also a native of Brill. Now I con- 
sider it a rather singular circumstance that parties 
of the same name as the pope should be residents 
of the same place after such a lapse of time. Pro- 
bably some of the readers of “ N. &. Q.” may be 
acquainted with the locality, and if so, I should 
be glad to learn if any of the name are still living 
at Brill. R. H. 


Mending cracked Bells.—In an article on 
“ Bells” in the Quarterly, for (1 think) Dec. 1854, 
it was said a Frenchman bad discovered a method 
of mending cracked bells without re-casting them. 
Who is the Frenchman, and has the art been at- 
tempted in England, and what is it? Ihave a 
beautifyl Burmese bell that was cracked at the 





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Custom House, and rendered quite dumb. I 
should thergfore be glad to know where I could 
get it mended. E. E. Byrne. 


Who was Mayor of London in 1335 ?—In 
Stow’s Survey of London Nicholas Woton is 
named as mayor for the year 1335, with Walter 
Motden and Richard Upton as sheriffs. In his 
Chronicle (ed. 1607) the name is Richard Wotton. 
Reginald al Conduite was mayor in 1334. In 
Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (and sev@ral other 
works I have referred to), Reginald (or Reynold) 
al Conduite is stated as mayor for the two years 
1334 and 1335. Wotton is not mentioned, nor 
do the names of the sheriffs agree. 

W. (Bombay.) 


“ Too Late.” — Who was the author of the fol- 
lowing poem, entitled Too Late ? — 


“ Douglas, Douglas, tendir and treu.” 
Old Ballad. 
“ Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas, 
In the old likeness that I knew, 
I would be so faithful, so loving, Douglas, 
Douglas, Douglas, tender and true! 


“ Never a scornful word should pain ye: 
I’d smile as sweet as the angels do; 

Sweet, as your smile on me shone ever, 
Douglas, Douglas, tender and true! 


“ Oh! to call back the days that are not! — 
My eyes were blinded, your words were few; 
Do you know the truth now up in Heaven, 
Douglas, Douglas, tender and true? 


“ T was not half worthy of you, Douglas, 
Not half worthy the like of you! 
Now all men beside are to me like shadows, 
I love you, Douglas, tender and true. 


“ Stretch out your hand to me, Douglas, Douglas, 
Drop forgiveness from Heaven like dew; 

As I lay my heart on your dead heart, Douglas, 

Douglas, Douglas, tender and true,” 


Unepa. 
Quotations Wanted. — Where are the following 
lines to be found ? 
* Fine words, indeed! I wonder where he stole ’em!” 





“ The eagle suffers little birds to sing, 
And is not careful what they mean thereby, 
Knowing, that with the shadow of his wing, 
He can, at pleasure, stint their melody.” 
Unepa. 


Captain M°Cluer.—In Staunton’s Account of 
Lord Macartney’s Embassy to China, under the 
date of July 14, 1793, is the following passage : 

“ The ‘ Endeavour’ belonged to the East India Com- 
pany; and had been employed, under the command of a 
gentleman of science of the name of MeCluer, in a voyage 
of observation and discovery through the great Eastern 
Archipelago, comprehended in what are called the Chinese 
Seas, according to the liberal plan pursued in many in- 
stances by the India Company, of attending to the pro- 
motion of knowledge in the midst of its commercial 
und 





ertakings. Captais M*Cluer was considered as a 


diligent and capable observer. He had either visited 
formerly the Pelew Islands, or had formed an exalted 
idea of the climate and of the disposition of the inha- 
bitants, from the very interesting account which has 
been published of them by Mr. Keate, from the materials 
furnished by Captain Wilson. Captain MeCluer deter- 
mined to seek for that happiness in the Pelew Islands, 
which he considered, no doubt, as less attainable in a 
larger and more complicated, but perhaps a mere corrupt 
society. He had this project in contemplation for some 
time; and provided whatever he thought might be con- 
ducive to his comfort in his new residence. On his 
arrival there, he gave up his vessel to the gentleman next 
in command to him, and wrote a letter to his employers; 
assigning, among other reasons for the step he had taken, 
the desire he felt of distinguishing himself by a conduct 
of which few examples had previously been afforded. He 
was well received by the natives of the Pelew Islands, 
and honourable distinctions, with considerable authority 
amongst them, offered to him, which he declined, content- 
ing himself with a moderate portion of land allotted to him ; 
and better pleased to benefit the country of his adoption, 
by the advice which his superior knowledge and experi- 
ence might enable him to give, than to exercise any com- 
mand among them. Such a procedure was certainly as 
likely to secure to him the permanent attachment of the 
people, as the assumption of power would be to excite, in 
the course of time, jealousy and discontent. It is far, 
however, from being certain, that no accident will happen 
to disturb the harmony subsisting at present between 
this hospitable race and their new guest; and that no 
change will take place in his own disposition, recalling 
those affections and partialities which attach most men 
to their original connections and ancient habits.” 


Is anything farther known of this benevolent 
adventurer? Did harmony continue, or did he 
yearn after the civilisation which he had left ? 

Unepa. 

Philadelphia. 


Singular Funeral Sermon.—A funeral sermon 
is occasionally published in our newspapers, al- 
leged to have been preached in the year 1733, at 
the funeral of the Rev. Mr. Proctor, minister of 
Gissing, by the Rev. Mr. Moor, minister of Bur- 
ston, in Norfolk. Those who have ever read it 
will remember that the several heads of the ser- 
mon conclude thus — 

“ Now, was not this a good man, and a man of God, 
think you? and his wife a good woman? And she came 
from Helsdon Hall beyond Norwich.” 

Were the above named persons clergymen of 
those places at the time mentioned ? * Is the ser- 
mon genuine ? M. E. 

Philadelphia. 


“ Ca Ira.” — Where are the words and music 
of this once popular French song to be found ? 


Philadelphia. 


“ The Country Book Club."—Who was the 
author of The Country Book Club, a respectable 
poetical brochure, published by whee in 
1788, in 4to. ? Ww. C. 








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English Ballads. — Where are the complete 


words to be found of two English ballads, of 


which the following are fragments? I heard 
them sung forty years ago. The tunes of both 
are pleasing, particularly that of the first : 
« Down in the valley the sun setting clearly, 
Lilly o lille, lilly o lee; 
The nightingale carols her sonnet so cheerly, 
Lily 0 lillo, lilly o lee.” 





“ Lady Alice was sitting at her bower window, 
A-mending her midnight coif; 
And there she saw the finest corpse 
That ever she saw in her life. 
“ Fal-de-ral. 
«« What bear ye, what bear ye, ye six men tall, 
Upon your shoulders strong?’ 
* We bear the corpse of Sir Giles Collins, 
An old and true lover of yours.’4 
“« Fal-de-ral. 
“ Lady Alice was buried all in the east, 
Giles Collins all in the west ;~ 
A lily grew out of Giles Collins’s grave, 
And touched Lady Alice’s breast. 
“ Fal-de-ral.” 
Unepa. 
Philadelphia. 


Paternity of Anne Boleyn.—In the Dublin 
Weekly Telegraph, April 19, 1856, Dr. Cahill 
states among the crimes of Henry VIIL.: 

“ Plundering hundreds of convents, robbing hundreds 
of churches, banishing thousands of men, murdering se- 
veral wives, debauching scores of the reformed nobility, and 
marrying Anne Boleyn, his own daughter.” 

Hume says of Henry: 

“ Unlike most monarchs who judge lightly of the crime 
of gallantry, and who deem the young damsels of their 
courts rather honoured than disgraced by their passion, 
he seldom thought of any other attachment than that of 
marriage, and in order to attain this end he underwent 
more difficulties, and committed greater crimes, than 
those which he sought to avoid by forming the legal con- 
nection.” — History of England, iv. 174. 

Henry was born in 1491, Anne Boleyn in 1507. 
If he was her father he must have been profligate 
when young. 

As Dr. Cahill is a clergyman of rank and 
station, and a lecturer on history and philosophy, 
it must not be supposed that he wrote these as- 
sertions without authority. I shall be obliged by 
a reference to any as to the scores of the reformed 
nobility, and Henry’s marriage with his own 
daughter. H. B.C. 

U. U. Club. 


Poems by a Literary Society.—In Nichols’s 
Literary Anecdotes, vol. viii. pp. 146, 147, 148., 
there is an account of a volume of poetry under 
the following title, “ Poems by a Literary Society, 
comprehending Original Pieces in the several 





Walks of Poetry.” The work was published in or 
about the year 1784. Amongst thé contributors 
there is W. Van Mildert, afterwards Bishop of 
Durham. Can you, or any of your readers who 
may have an opportunity of seeing this volume, 
give me the names of poems in this collection 
which are written by the bishop ? X. (1.) 


Extraordinary Fact.—Can you explain the 
pete “extraordinary fact,” as stated in the 
Dublin Penny Journal (vol. ii. p. 248.) ? 

“ About the close of the last century, a gentleman, who 
was superintending the digging out of his potatoes in the 
county of Antrim, was surprised to see some sailors who 
had entered the field in conversation with his labourers, 
who only spoke Irish. He went to them, and learned 
that the sailors were from Tunis; and that the vessel, to 
which they belonged, had put into port from stress of 
weather, The sailors and country people understood each 
other; the former speaking the language spoken at Tunis, 
and the latter speaking Irish. The anecdote was related 
by a person of credit, and must interest the Irish scholar.” 


ABHBA. 


Jacobins outlawed in 1745.—Can any of your 
correspondents tell me where I can find a list of 
the Jacobins outlawed in 1745 ? A. B.* 


Picture in the Cathedral at Hereford. —In the 
Gentleman's Magazine of November, 1816, is the 
following notice : 

“The Dean and Chapter of Hereford have added to 
their cathedral Mr. Leeming’s beautiful picture from the 
altar-piece of Magdalen College, Oxford. The painting 
is very much admired, and reflects high credit on the 
young artist.” 

Can any of your correspondents at Hereford 
furnish me with a description of this picture, or 
give any information regarding the artist, &c. ? 

LuiwyvEIN. 


Water-Eaton, Oxfordshire. — What was the 
date of that attack on the manor-house of Water- 
Eaton by the soldiers from Banbury, in conse- 
quence of which Lady Lovelace was carried away 
in her coach to Middleton Stoney, there turned 
out, and left to find her way home again as she 


best could ? W. B. 


Heraldic Colours indicated by Lines. — When 
were lines, &c., first used in England to represent 
the heraldic colours? Mr. Planché, in his Pur- 
suivant of Arms, p. 20., says : 

“ This useful mode of indicating colour is said to have 
been the invention of an Italian, Father Silvestre de 
Petra Sancta; and the earliest instance of its application 
in England, the engraving of the death-warrant of 
Charles I., to which the seals of the subscribing parties 
are represented attached,” 

I would therefore ask, when did Father Silvestre 
de Petra Sancta live? When was this engraved 
representation of the death-warrant of Charles I. 
made? And is it the earliest instance of the ap- 
plication of the invention in England? C. R.M. 





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Arms in Dallaway's “ Heraldry.” — To what 
family do the following arms belong? They are 
figured in Dallaway’s Heraldry: Barry of six 
arg. and az., and a chief paly of five gules and or; 
over all, a tilting spear, point upwards, in bend. 
Motto, “ Vixere fortes.” C. J. Doueras. 


Sir Isaac Newton's Pedigree. — as the pedi- 
gree of Sir I. Newton ever been correctly ascer- 
tained? There appear to have been two tradi- 
tions in the family; one that he was descended 
from a gentleman of East or West Lothian, who 
accompanied James I. into England; and another 
that be was related to a baronetical family of 
Newton: 

“ During his lifetime, he delivered into the Heralds’ Col- 
lege an elaborate pedigree, stating upon oath, that he 
had reason to believe that he was a cadet of the latter 
family.” — Sir David Brewster’s Life of Sir I. Newton. 

What arms did he bear ? C. J. Doveras. 


Proverbs.— The French have a saying, when a 
father dies at or about the birth of a son, that 
“ Le cercueil de l'un s’etait creusé prés du berceau 
de l'autre.” What is the corresponding English 
proverb, if there is one ? 

Also of “ Faire donner le dernier coup de pin- 
ceau.” T. Lampray. 


MSS. of Hale's “ Pleas of the Crown.” —Mr. 
Amos has just published a book, entitled Ruins of 
Time, exemplified in Sir Matthew Hale's History 
of the Pleas of the Crown; and, in the Appendix, 
has discussed the question as to the MSS. of that 
work. It appears that the original MSS. of that 
work was in Lord Hale’s handwriting, and con- 
sisted of one thick folio volume; and at p. 256. 
Mr. Amos says: 

“ Mr. Brown, the last known possessor of a gem above 
= (the MSS. in question), was deputy town clerk of 

iverpool, and died in the year 1807. Diligent inquiries 
have, on more than one occasion, been made after his 
personal representatives, but without success.” 

Nevertheless, I am not without hopes that “ N. 
& Q.” may furnish, through some contributor, 
such information as may lead to the discovery of 
the missing MSS. C. S. Greaves. 

11. Blandford Square. 


Fuseli’s “ Nightmare.” — By mere chance I have 
become the possessor of the original sketch or con- 
ception of this celebrated painting, which first 
raised Fuseli prominently into notice. Along 
with it are many other wild and characteristic 
sketches in pen and ink, conjoined with rhapsodical 
effusions, drafts of letters, &c. I believe that the 
“ Nightmare” was conceived in a fearful night- 
dream, after supping upon half-raw pork, and shall 
feel obliged to any of your correspondents who 
can refer me to a circumstantial account of this 
singular incident. J. K. 





Ballad of Richard Ceur de Lion. —In the in- 
troduction to Rot. Curie Regis, p. \xxiv., Sir R. 
Palgrave mentions the curious ballad which was 
circulated in Normandy a short time previous to 
Richard’s death, to the effect that “the arrow 
was making in Limousin by which King Richard 
should be slain.” Can any one refer me to where 
I can find this ballad, or if in MS. favour me 
with a copy ? LX. 


“ Venus Chastising Cupid:” Female Terminal 
Figures. — There is a curious subject frequentl 
met with in medieval art, both carved and rere | 
namely, “ Venus Chastising Cupid.” ‘I have met 
with it treated in different ways; in one, Cupid is 
“horsed” on the back of another Cupid, in the 
orthodox scholastic fashion, and in another he is 
undergoing the birch, being laid across Venus’s 
knee, after the usual manner of mammas in ge- 
neral. I should feel obliged if one of your nume- 
rous correspondents could furnish me with the 
classical authority for this very eccentric subject. 
A very highly finished specimen carved in ivory 
was formerly in the possession of Colonel Sib- 
thorpe. 

We often meet with female terminal figures in 
art. Is this classically correct ? T. W. 


Cullens and Hamiltons of Lanark. — Wanted, 
some account of the history, genealogy, and con- 
nexion of the families of Cullen and Hamilton, 
whose representatives are (?) settled at present in 
Lanarkshire. F. St. M***, 





PMinor Queries With Answers, 


Colonel John Lilburn.—At a recent meeting 

of the “New England Historico-Genealogical 
Society,” held at Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Pul- 
sifer — 
“ exhibited a manuscript copy of the original report of 
the celebrated trial of Col. John Lilburn; also a printed 
copy of the same, probably the only one extant. This 
trial, Mr. Pulsifer remarked, established in England the 
doctrine that jurors are judges of the law as well as the 
fact; and for this reason, he thought the document was 
of special interest at the present time.” 

My object in sending this Note is for the pur- 
pose of asking if the “ original report of Colonel 
Lilburn’s trial” does not exist in England? and 
also, if any printed copies of the same are known? 

Mr. Pulsifer, at the same time meeting, 

“ exhibited a copy of the Bible (St. Jerome’s translation), 
written on vellum, about the end of the 12th century, 
which was pronounced a beautiful specimen of ancient 
chirography.” 

W. W. 


Malta, 

[Two editions of Lilburne’s Trial have been printed. 
The first was published by himself under the name of 
“Theodorus Verax,” to which he prefixed, by way of 





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triumph, a print of himself at full length, standing at the 
bar with Coke’s Jnstitutes in his hand, the work he made 
use of to prove that flattering doctrine, which he applied 
with singular address to the jury, that in them alone was 
inherent the judicial power of the law, as well as fact. 
In the same print, over his head, appear the two faces of 
a medal, upon one of which were inscribed the names of 
the jury, and on the other these words, “John Lilburne 
saved by the power of the Lord, and the integrity of his 
jury, who are judges of law as well as fact, Oct. 26, 1649.” 
London: 4to., pp. 168, Another edition in 8vo. London, 
1710, with portrait. ] 


Handel's “ Harmonious Blacksmith.” — Why did 
Handel give the title of “Harmonious Black- 
smith” to his celebrated piece ? J. 

{Handel did not call “his celebrated piece ” the Har- 
monious Blacksmith, nor was “the piece” so called in 
Handel's life-time. Marot, who versified the Psalms in 
Paris before Sternhold in England, published some vo- 
lumes of Chansons with the melodies, and amongst these 
melodies is the tune which Handel has used in his Harpsi- 
chord Sonatas. The tune became a court favourite in 
Paris and passed northward, for it appears in a Swedish 
collection of much earlier date than Handel’s time. It 
travelled also into Italy. Handel might have met with 
it in Germany, or in Italy; it might have been given 
him by some one in the English court, or it might have 
been a favourite at Cannons with the Duke of Chandos. 

Mr. Richard Clark has endeavoured to show that 
Handel heard this air for the first time from Wm. Powell, 
a blacksmith, of Edgware, who, it is alleged, was singing 
it when at work, as Handel, overtaken by the rain, took 
shelter in his shop. The hypothesis has no evidence for 
its support, and as the air was not associated to English 
words before Handel’s use of it, it is most improbable that 
a village blacksmith should have known anything what- 
ever about it. In Mr. Clark’s account there is a serious 
error. It was not James, the first Duke of Chandos, that 
taught the ostler’s wife, but Henry, the second duke, and 
the marriage did not take place in 1736, but in 1744. 
The chorus “ Triumph Hymen ” was not written so early 
as 1736. 

The variations on the air were liked and became a 
favourite of the fair sex, and then the teaching lesson in 
schools, About the commencement of the present century 
some professor at Bath —the city of dowagers — issued 
it with the title of “The Harmonious Blacksmith.” 
Wagenseil published some variations upon the tune, and 
we believe many other musicians have tried their skill 
upon it, but none with the spirit and elegance of Handel. 
Fesch, in 1725, published it with Italian words, under the 
title “ Venui Amore.” ] 


Daniel De Foe.—Mr. Forster, in his essay on 
De Foe, and all the notices of him I have access 
to, state he died April 24, 1731; but the Gentle- 
man's Magazine, vol. i. for 1731, p. 174., has in its 
April obituary : “26th, Mr. Daniel De Foe, Sen., 
eminent for his many writings.” 

Is Sylvanus Urban in error or not? H. G. D. 

[According to Walter Wilson (Life of De Foe, vol. iii. 
p. 609.), Mr. Forster’s date is the correct one. Wilson 
says, “The author of the ‘Life of De Foe,’ in the Bio- 
graphia Britannica places his death upon the 26th of 
April, as does the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1731. The 
Historical Register for 1731 states it more correctly as 
follows: “April 24, Dy’d Mr. Daniel De Foe, well known 
for his various writings.”) 








Alteration of the Lord's Prayer. — Who altered 
the Lord’s Prayer by omitting the word “and?” 
In my Prayer-Book, printed in 1768, the ending 
of the prayer runs, “For thine is the kingdom 
and the power,” &e., which is correct according to 
the Greek. If corrections are allowed, why not 
say, “ For thine are the kingdom?” &e. Osstan, 

[The word “and” in the doxology of the Lord’s 
Prayer, as well as the word “may” in the General 
Thanksgiving, are both struck out with a pen in a copy 
of — Book at Oxford. British Magazine, vol. xix. 
p. 8. 


“ Tumulo sine cede,” &c.— Where are the fol- 

lowing lines to be found ? 
“. . . tumulo sine cede et sanguine pauci 
Descendunt reges, et siccé morte tyranni.” 

Do you know any Latin dictionary which notices 
this meaning of the word siccus, viz. “natural,” as 
opposed to “ bloody ?” Ossiay. 

[The passage occurs in Juvenal, Sat. x. 112, 113., and 
the correct reading is as follows: 

“, . . . sine cade et vulnere pauci 
Descendunt reges, et sicca morte tyranni.” 

The epithet sicca, which puzzles OsstAn, is thus com- 
mented upon by the old scholiast: “ Morte sicca, vet. 
Schol. recte: incruenta, ac per hoc naturali,” ie. by a 
bloodless, and therefore a natural, death. See notes to 
Bibliotheca Classica Latina, a Lemaire, vol. xxxiv. p. 95.] 


Reference to S. Ambrose wanted. —In the Ca- 
techism of the Council of Trent (Catechismi ad 
Parochos, Pars I., Caput x., Quastio xi.) the fol- 
lowing passage occurs respecting the Papal Su- 
premacy : 

“Postremo vero sanctus Ambrosius ait: Si quis ob- 
jiciat, ecclesiam uno capite et sponso Jesu Christo con- 
tentam, preterea nullum requirere; in promptu responsio 
est. Ut enim Christum Dominum singulorum sacra- 
mentorum non solum auctorem, sed intimum etiam prebi- 
torem habemus (nam ipse est qui baptizat, et qui absolvit, 
et tamen is homines sacramentorum externos ministros 
instituit); sic ecclesiw, quam ipse intimo spiritu regit, 
hominem suz potestatis vicarium et ministrum prefecit. 
Nam quum visibilis ecclesia visibili capite egeat, ita Sal- 
vator noster Petrum universi fidelium generis caput et 
pastorem constituit, quum illi oves suas pascendas verbis 
amplissimis commendavit, ut qui ei successisset, eandem 
plane totius Ecclesia regend@ et gubernandsy potestatem 
habere voluerit.” 

No reference is given to S. Ambrose’s works, 
and no clue as to how much of all this is quotation, 
how much comment; yet all the other extracts 
from the Fathers in the section are duly authen- 
ticated by references. Can any correspondent 
kindly inform me where this apparently most im- 
portant passage is to be found in the writings of 
the great Bishop of Milan. 

I quote from Tauchnitz’s edition, mS 1851. 

[The passage quoted by A. A. D. is not from St. Am- 
brose, but is the text of the Council, in answer to the 
question, “ Quomodo preter Christum Ecclesia uno capite 
visibili indigeat.” In the editions of Tauchnitz and 
Liabbé Doney (& Dijon, 1840), as well as in that of 








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Paulus Manutius, and the translation of Figliucci, the 
words of St. Ambrose (Com. in Luc., c.9.), which should 
immediately precede the above passage, are omitted, “ an 
= its origin purely typographical,” says Dr, Dono- 
van. 


Early Edition of Chaucer's Works. — A few 
days ago I met with an old black-letter edition of 
Chaucer’s Works, published, I think, during the 
latter part of the sixteenth century. The title- 
page is lost, but otherwise it is in good preserva- 
tion. In the Life of Chaucer the writer states : 

“M. Wil.iam Thynn, that learned Gentelman and 
painfull Collector of Chaucers workes in his Epistle dedi- 
catorie to the Kings Majestie hath duly set forth che 
commendable qualities of this Poet; whose iudgement we 
are the rather to approue, for that he had further insight 
into him than many others. Of whom Iohn Bale in his 
booke De scriptoribus Britan. Centur. 12. hath some Ix. 
yeeres past, deliuered thus: Guilhelmus Thynne, preclari 
generis homo, et ab ineunte etate in literis educatus, multo 
labore, sedulitate et cura vsus, in perquirendis vetustis exem- 
plaribus, Chauceri opera restituit, atque in vnum collegit 
volumen : quod Henrico octauo Anglorum regi dedicauit. 
Since whose time, two of the purest and best writers of 
our daies, the one for Prose, the other for Verse, M. 
Ascham and M. Spenser, haue deliuered most worthy tes- 
timonies of their approuing of Chaucer.” 

John Bale above quoted was Bishop of Ossory 
in the middle of the sixteenth century, and is 
celebrated as a controversial and dramatic writer 
of that time. 

In the first part is the dedication of, I suppose, 
“M. William Thynn, the painfull Collector,” pre- 
faced by the following words : 

“To the Kings Highnesse, my most gracious soueraigne 
Lord, Henry the eight, by the grace of God, King of Eng- 
land and of France, defensor of the faith, and Lord of 
Ireland, &c.” 

The above extracts may, perhaps, assist in my 
obtaining information as to the editor, and date of 
the book. Tuomas Hoperns. 

Toronto, Canada, 

[Our correspondent’s copy is a reprint of Speght’s 
edition of 1589, with additional matter. It is entitled 
The Workes of ovr Ancient and learned English poet, 
Geffrey Chavcer, newly printed. London: Printed by 
Adam Islip, An. Dom. 1602, fol. See a notice of it in 
Lowndes’s Bib. Manual, vol. i, p. 395. } 





Replies. 
ETYMOLOGY OF CATERPILLAR AND EARWIG, 
(2™ §, i. 303.) 
I cannot help thinking that chattepeleuse is not 


only “a likely source of our English word” cater- 
pillar, but that it is the certain source. In the 


first place chattepeleuse is a real word in use, | 


whereg; cates piller are two words, from which no 

single French word has ever been compounded. 
But there is a better reason. We shall in vain 

seek for chattepeleuse in any modern French dic- 


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357 





men call caterpillars chattepeleuse.” It was never 
a general French name for that insect ; nor, as far 
as I can discover, was it ever a name (as is stated in 
Todd’s Johnson) for a weasel. Had it been so, it 
would scarcely have been also used for caterpillar. 
The word is provincial, and it belongs just to that 
province from which a French word would soonest 
have been naturalised among us. In the excel- 
lent Etymological Dictionary of Ménage we read: 
“ Chattepeleuse. Les Normands appellent ainsi 
une chenille. Les Anglais disent caterpillar.” 

There is, besides, something in the adjunct 
-peleuse which is peculiarly applicable to the soft 
hairy exterior of most caterpillars ; nor need the 
word chatte disturb us, for it is not unusual with 
the French to give in their familiar names of in- 
sects the appellations of beasts: for example, the 
lady-bird is called La Vache de Nétre Dame. 
Both were words introduced by the monks in 
order to secure for that insect a superstitious pro- 
tection in the hop districts. 

There is something very plausible in the de- 
rivation of earwig from eruca; it is analogous to 
that of periwig from peruque. But then it must 
be recollected that eruca is a generic name for all 
worms which feed on the leaves of trees and 
flowers, and has no particular connection with the 
earwig, which I believe is rare in the dry southern 
regions of Europe. 

Now the notion of this insect infesting the ear 
is almost universal in the languages of northern 
and central Europe, e. g.: 








Anglo-Saxon - - earwigga 

High German - - ohrwurm 

Low German - - oorworm ear-worm. 
Swedish - - - drmask 

Danish - - - urhwigg 


French, oreillére, perce-oreille. Of these six names 
the Anglo-Saxon and Danish only can be com- 
pared with eruca. 

In Italian I find for earwig, formicala prinza- 
juola : the etymology I know not. The Linnwan 
name is Forcicula auricularia, which is explained 
in Spanish and Portuguese thus; “ Sabandija que 
entra en las orejas,” and “ Casta de insecto, que 
dizem que entra nos ouvidos.” I take it for 
granted that there is no specific name for this 
insect in the southern tongues, because it be- 
longs to colder regions. Possibly, however, the 
vulgar names are not, as both Mr. Keicurier 
and Mr. Warwick seem to think, founded merely 
on popular prejudice. In Rees's Cyclopedia I 
find that this insect habitually creeps into the ears 
| of those who sleep in the open air during the sea- 
| sons in which they are numerous. And in the 
| Universal Lexicon of Zedler (an invaluable re- 
pertory of information on almost every subject) 
| I find these words: 

“Der Ohrwurm gehet nach den Ohren, wischt in sel- 








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bige behend hinein, und beisset und naget denn dieje- 
nigen Orte, allwo er sich anleget: welches gar grosse 
Ungelegenheit verursachet, und mehrmals gar den kopf 
recht wiiste machet.” 


I differ from Mr. Ketentiry with great re. 
spect; for I know no one who has given more 
valuable information on so great a variety of sub- 


j E. C, H. 


jects in so concise and readable a form. 





COUNT BORUWLASEI. 
(2™ S. i. 154. 240.) 


The French Birmingham edition. of 1792 
(penes) of the Memoirs of this celebrated mani- 
kin presents in an oval on the title-page a full- 
Jength representation of him (R. Hancock, Sct.) 
in a court dress, with this motto: 


“ Mvsterious Nature who thy works shall scan, 
Behold in size a Child, in sense a Man.” 


“T have seen (says Dr. Adum Clarke, in his Commentary 
on the Bible, London, 1840,) and entertained in my house, 
the famous Polish dwarf, Count Boruwlaski, who was 
about thirty-six inches high, every part of whose person 
was formed with the most perfect and delicate symmetry. 
The prodigious height and bulk of Charles Burns (born 
in Ireland in the same township as the doctor), eight feet 
six inches high, and the astonishing diminutiveness of 
the count could not be properly estimated but by com- 
paring both together. Each was a perfect man, and yet 
in quantum how disproportionate. Man is the only 
creature in whom the extremes of minuteness and mag- 
nitude are so apparent, and yet the proportion of the parts 
in each strictly correlative.” 


Seventy years ago, when the count visited Scot- 
land, he must have been beheld. with a consider- 
able degree of curiosity, and during his sojourn of 
“some weeks” at Glasgow, where he was “ par- 
faitement bien regu,” would be abundantly stared 
at by the cotton manufacturers, with many droll 
remarks, of which there is now no information. 

To him the miseries of being short had equalled 
in another “ the miseries of being tall.” 

“ Si ” (bewails the count, p. 130.) “j’avais été formé a 
Vinstar des autres mortels, j’aurais pu, ainsi que tant 
d’autres subsister par mon industrie et par mon travail; 
mais ma taille m’a exclus irrevocablement du cercle ordi- 
naire de la société; bien des gens méme paroissent ne me 


| 








tenir aucun compte de ce que je suis homme, de ce que | 
je suis honnéte homme, de ce que je suis homme sensible. | 


Que ces reflexions sont douloureuses !” 


It must ever be esteemed an honourable feature 
in the character of those “ prebendaries of Dur- 
ham” who gratuitously afforded him such com- 
fortable shelter for the remainder of his long 
spun-out existence. 

I have seen a number of individuals of both 
sexes, the period of whose life extended from 
ninety to upwards of one hundred years, and who 
were generally of a compact, thin, wiry structure, 
and in stature below the middle size. This spe- 
cies of formation seems that which confers the 





| or foreign, is not difficult to account for. 


greatest stability and consequent longevity: the 
fact, so far as I am aware, has not been alluded to 
by any writer on the history of man. G.N. 





Boruwlaski is the correct spelling of the name, 
and the following is a copy of the inscription on 
the monument erected to his memory in Durham 
Cathedral : 

“Near this spot repose the remains of Count Joseph 
Boruwlaski, a native of Pokucia in the late kirgdom of 
Poland. This extraordinary man measured no more than 
three feet three inches in height, but his form was well 
proportioned, and he possessed a more than common share 
of understanding and knowledge. After various changes 
of fortune, borne with cheerful resignation to the will of 
God, he closed his life in the vicinity of this cathedral, on 
the 5th of September, 1837, in the ninety-eighth year of 
his age.” 

Wm. Martruews. 

Cowgill. 


The particulars given in the Reply are very inter- 
esting, but is it true that the count was buried “ near 
those of the late Mr. Stephen Kemble, in the nine 
altars in Durham Cathedral?” ‘There is, I know, 
a brass tablet to his memory let into the west 
wall of the church of S. Mary the Less, Durham. 
Perhaps the rector, the Rev. James Raine, the 
eminent antiquary, would favour your readers 
with a copy of the inscription on the tablet. 


A. T. L. 


SCRIPTURAL LEGENDS ON OUR ENGLISH COINS. 
(2™ S. i. 313.) 


Tt strikes me that the adoption of the legend 
referred to on the coins of any monarch, English 
The 
text is, “Jesus autem transiens per medium il- 
lorum ibat — But Jesus passing through the midst 
of them, went his way.” (St. Luke, iv. 30.) The 
circumstances in which this occurred sufficiently 
explain, to my mind, the rationale of the adoption. 
The enemies of our Divine Redeemer had sought 
to destroy him, to cast him down headlong ; but by 
his own divine power he escaped unhurt. The 
legend then implies a confidence in the divine 
power on the part of the monarch, to protect him 
against his enemies, who might seek to cast him 
down headlong from his throne and dominion. 

It ill became the author of Rambles round Not- 
tingham to sneer at the Vulgate, or “monkish 
versions” of the Scriptures. If he had examined 
the Vulgate he would not have found the hol 
name at the beginning of the text, but the Gree 
faithfully rendered, Ipse autem. The holy name 
of Jesus was substituted for the word Jpse on the 
coin, simply to render the text and its application 
intelligible. . C. H. 





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The following extract from Tyrwhitt’s Intro- 
ductory Discourse to the Canterbury Tales, will 
answer the Query respecting the text, “ Jesus 
autem transiens per medium illorum ibat :” 


“ The first considerable coinage of gold in this country 
was begun by Edward III. in the year 1343, and accord- 
ing to Camden [in his Remains, art. “ Money”), ‘the 
Alchemists did affirm, as an unwritten verity, that the 
Rosenobles, which were coined soon after, were made by 

rojection or multiplication Alchemical of Raymond 
ully in the Tower of London.’ In proof of this, ‘ besides 
the tradition of the Rabbies in that faculty,’ they alledged 
‘the Inscription; Jesus autem per medium eorum transiens 
ibat ;’ which they profoundly expounded, as Jesus passed 
invisible and in most secret manner by the middest of Pha- 
risees, so that gold was made by invisible and secret art 
amidst the ignorant. But others say, ‘that Text was the 
only amulet used in that credulous warfaring age to es- 
cape dangers in battles.’ Thus Camden. I rather believe 
it was an Amulet or Charm, principally used against 
Thieves, upon the authority of the following passage of 
Sir John Mandevile, ch. x. p. 137.: ‘And an half myle 
fro Nazarethe is the Lepe of Oure Lorn: for the Jewes 
ladden Him upon an highe roche for to make Him lepe 
down and have slayne Him: but Jesu passed amonges 
hem, and lepte upon another roche; and yit ben the 
steppes of His feet sene in the roche where He allyghte. 
And therfore seyn sum men whan thei dreden hem of 
Thefes on ony weye, or of Enemyes, Jesus autem transiens 
per medium eorum ibat: that is to seyne; Jesus forsothe 
passynge be the myddes of hem He wente: in tokene and 
mynde,;that Oure Lorp passed thorghe out the Jewes 
crueltee, and scaped safly fro hem; so surely mowe men 
passen the perile of Thefes.’ (See also Catal. MSS. Harl., 
n. 2966.) It must be owned that a spell against Thieves 
was the most serviceable, if not the most elegant, In- 

scription that coud be put upon Gold Coin.” 
R. F. L. 





Dublin. 





COAL IN ENGLAND. 
(2” S, i. 293.) 


Your correspondent Mr. D. Srevens, of Co- 
lumbus, Ohio (U.S.), inquires for some statistics 
of coal. Being myself an anxious observer of all 
matters affecting so important an item in relation 
to our country’s welfare, I forward an extract 
from an elaborate article on the subject in my file 
of the Mining Journal (April 14, 1855), and from 
which I will, at my leisure, select others. I have 
a distinct recollection of an article, giving an ac- 
count of the several estimates of the probable 
duration of the coal-fields of England, but cannot 
this moment remember the date. Perhaps Mr. 
Stevens will return the compliment by forward- 
ing some statistics respecting the coal of America. 

“The area of the coal-fields of the British Isles had 
been estimated as extending over nearly 10,000 square 
miles, while those of Belgium do not exceed 600, and the 
fields of France occupy only about 1719 square miles. 
Considerable difficulty has arisen in estimating the exact 
quantity of coal produced in the British Isles, arising 
partly from the dislike of some coal proprietors to allow 
the annual produce of the pits to be known. From a 





visit paid to the various coal-fields, Mr. Hunt was satis- 
fied that this feeling of hesitation was dying away, but 
accounts were not kept in many small collieries supply- 
ing the towns in their immediate vicinities. Data have 
been obtained for estimating our coal produce with a 
greater degree of exactness than has been as yet reached, 
but the computation will occupy some considerable time. 
The estimates of Mr. Thomas Young Hale and Mr. Dick- 
inson may, however, be given as showing a close agree- 
ment, although they are both above that made by Mr. 
Thomas John Taylor, which was as follows — 


Tons. Tons. 
For household purposes about - 19,000,000 
For iron-works . . - 13,000,000 
For steam, gas, and coking coal - 9,000,000 
Export - - - - - 4,000,000 = 45,000,000 
Scotland has been estimated as 
producing - - - ~ - - 7,000,000 
Total - - - - - 52,000,000 


Mr. Young Hale’s estimate is — 
Northumberland and Durham - 13,300,000 
Cumberland - - - - 1,000,000 
Lancashire and North Wales - 10,000,000 
Staffordshire, Shropshire, and 

Worcestershire - - - 8,000,000 
Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Notting- 

hamshire, Leicestershire, and 

Warwickshire - - - 7,000,000 
South Wales, Monmouthshire, 

Dean Forest, and Bristol Fields 10,000,000 
Scotland - - - - - 7,250,000 = 56,550,000 

Mr. Dickinson’s estimate is — 
Northumberland, Durham, and 


Cumberland - . - - 11,000,000 
Lancashire, Cheshire, and North 
Wales - - - 10,000,000 


Shropshire, and 


Staffordshire, 

Worcestershire ~ - = 8,000,000 
Yorkshire, Derbyshire, &c. - 7,500,000 
South Wales, Monmouthshire, 


Gloucestershire, &c. - - 10,000,000 
Scotland - . - - - 7,500,000 =54,000,000 


In producing this quantity of coal, we have about 
233,650 workmen employed underground, and at least 
50,000 on the surface. Mr. Hall has been at considerable 
trouble to estimate the quantity of coal remaining in the 
Northumberland and Durham coal-fields, and this he 
considers to be equal to 1,251,232,504 Newcastle chal- 
drons of 53 ewts. each. By this estimate, at the present 
rate of demand, these coal fields will be exhausted in 
331 years.” 
Apo.pue Benoit. 


Upper Clapton. 





DOLLY PENTREATH. 
(1* §. xii. 407.) 


Mr. Festine no doubt satisfied Mr. Fraser 
(1* S. xii. 500.) that “ Poor Dolly ” was in myth, 
and his account of the origin of the epitaph, sub- 
sequently transcribed by Mr. Dun«kin (2% § 
i. 17.) is correct ; but not so its attribution by the 
latter gentleman, as the real author was Mr. John 
Scaddon, schoolmaster, Penzance, and the follow- 
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ceptable to Mr. Fraser, but worth preserving in 
your valuable miscellany. 

When Mr. Britton was in the West collecting 
materials for his well-known work The Beuuties 
of England and Wales, Mr. Scaddon, among other 
more trustworthy information, told him that an 
epitaph in Cornish was to be found in Paul 
Churehyard, and on Mr. Britton expressing a 
desire for a copy, he undertook to procure it for 
him; and to save his credit concocted, with the 
assistance of Pryce’s Grammar and Vocabulary of 
the Cornish Language, the lines to the memory of 
Doll Pentreath. The ingenious fabrication was 
discovered in time to prevent Mr. Britton giving 
them to the world, but the actual existence of 
the epitaph has since been erroneously stated in 
various works on Cornwall. 

Dolly died in 1777, at the advanced age of 
Ninety-one, and her burial is thus noticed in the 
register of Paul parish : 

“Dorothy Jeffery was buried December 27. This is 
the famous Dolly Pentreath (her maiden name) spoken 
of by Daines Barrington in the Archaologia.” 

Although few could converse in the Cornish 
language when this learned antiquary made his | 
visit in 1768, yet it must have been still far from 
extinct, as I find from some manuscript memoirs 
left by my father, who was born in 1763, that he 
was taught when a child the Lord's Prayer, &c. 
in the old tongue. 

It is rather a curious coincidence that of the 
three dialects which sprung from the ancient 
British, viz. the Welsh, the Cornish, and the Ar- 
moric, the Cornish should have lingered longest 
in the parish of Paul, and that the Armoric should 
now be chiefly spoken in the neighbourhood of 
St. Pol de Leon in Brittany. I spent a consider- 
able time there in 1816-17, and well remember 
my surprise at hearing some Welsh women con- 
versing with the peasants in the market in their 
own patois, the radicals being so alike that they 
could understand each other without much dif- 
ficulty. There can be little doubt that Brittany 
was peopled from Cornwall: the similarity in the 
names of places bears ample testimony to their 
common origin. Joun J, A. Boasz. 

Alverton Vean, Penzance, 





BOOK -WORMS, 
(2™ S. i. 143. 244.) 

I must not let my Query, regarding this pest, 
pass without another Note; for the subject, like 
an old tune, may be much benefited by a little 
“ventilation.” It is for lack of readers, for want 
of air and light, that moths and book-worms hold 
undivided sway. 

By your fair correspondent I must stand repri- 
manded for not visiting the great national institu- 





tion in Great Russell Street, ere I troubled your 
pages. Had I done so, without her kind aid, [ 
fear it would have been to visit the library rather 
than the Natural History department—to witness 
an effect rather than discover its author. That 
there is one sort of book-worm for covers, and 
another for paper, I cannot think true: for we 
find all substances, — wood, paper, and leather, — 
pierced indiscriminately, 

To J. F. M. I tender my best thanks, and send 
some specimens of different leathers, = | for- 
warded by Messrs. J. and J. Leighton, book- 
binders, of Brewer Street, as tests to destroy 
book-worms. They are prepared with corrosive 
sublimate and colocynth, as recommended by one 
of our first chemists. I should feel much pleased 
by J. F. M., or any other “game preservers,” if 
they would introduce samples of papers and 
leathers so prepared amongst their live-stock, and 
note the effects in some future numbers of the 
“N, & Q.” Luxe Linner, F.S.A. 





“To give these mites a disrelish for books, the paste 
which the binders make use of, and which is supposed 
chiefly to attract them, has often been mingled with 
bitter substances, as wormwood, coloquintida, &c. without 
any success. Mineral salts, to which all insects have an 
aversion, afford the only remedy. The salt called arcanum 
duplicatum, allum, and vitriol, are proper for this purpose. 
By mingling therefore a small quantity of any of these 
mineral salts in the paste, books will be effectually pre- 
served from the attacks of all sorts of worms and insects. 

“ M. Prediger, in his Instructions to Bookbinders, printed 
at Leipsic, in the German language in 1741, says, that if 
binders were to make their paste of starch instead of flour, 
worms would not touch the books. He also directs pul- 
verised allum mixed with a little fine pepper, to be 


| strewed between the book and the cover, and also upon 


the shelves of the library; and for the more effectual 
preservation of the books in libraries, he advises rubbing 
the books well, in the months of March, July, and Sep- 
tember, with a woollen cloth dipped in powdered allum. 
And it were to be wished that for the future all book- 


| binders would make their paste in the manner recom- 


mended; but I would not advise depending upon starch 
without any admixture of mineral salts.” — Gentleman’s 
Magazine, Feb. 1754, p. 73. 

“Sir John Thorold (one of the first-rate bibliomaniacs 
during the time of the Pinelli sale) used to be very par- 
ticular (so Mr. Payne informs me) in his directions to the 
binder respecting a due portion of alum in the paste; and 
I am credibly informed by a gentleman, who, a few years 
ago had some books bound by two different binders at 
Vienna, that one set engendered the book-worm, and the 
other did not. Thus Mr. Prediger discourses rationally 
in his Jnstructions to German Book-binders. There is no 
doubt, I apprehend, that hog-skin binding is more favour- 
able to the breed of the book-worm than any other 
species; and this discovery is exclusively due to the 
Eustathius of the day! Mr. Douce has also a melancholy 
proof of the worm-nutritive powers of hog-skin, in an old 
MS. lately bound by Hering in that species of coverture.” 
— Dr. Dibdin’s Bibliographical Decameron, vol. ii. p. 446. 


It is said that worms seldom attack books 
printed upon English-made paper ? 
Epwarp F’, Rimpavtr. 





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Replies ta Minor Queries. 


The Danube (2™ S. i. 310.) — The following 
paragraph appeared in “N. & Q.:” 

“ A canal has been projected, and is in course of con- 

struction, from Dietfurth near the Danube, to Bamberg- 
on-the-Mein, whereby a line of communication would be 
continued from the Black Sea, by the Danube, Mein, and 
Rhine, to the German Ocean.” 
The following paragraph is extracted from Mur- 
ray’s Handbook of Southern Germany, published 
in 1853: 

“This small town (Kelheim) is likely to acquire im- 





rtance from its situation at the mouth of the Ludwig’s- | 


<anal, a canal recently formed to unite the Danube with 
the Main, through the Altmiihl and the Regnitz. The 
Altmiihl has been rendered navigable as far as Dietfurth, 


where the excavated canal begins, and is continued as far | 


as Bamberg on the Main, a distance from Kelheim of 
about 107 (Eng.) miles. The summit level is at Neu- 
markt-on-the-Sulz, where the canal is 300 feet above the 
level of the Danube at Kelheim, and 360 feet above that 
of the Regnitz at Bamberg. It has ninety-four locks, 
and near Nieder-(£lsbach traverses a tunnel 900 feet long. 
The dimensions of the canal are fifty-four feet in width at 
top, and thirty-four feet at bottom; the estimated cost 
817,5002. It is calculated that a barge may be tracked 
through it in six or seven days. It was begun in 1837. 
Its construction is due to the instigation of the King of 
Bavaria, who thus realised, after the lapse of 1000 years, 
the favourite scheme of Charlemagne, of connecting the 
Black Sea with the German Ocean.” 


In addition to the above, a friend now present 
informs me that two or three years since two 
friends of his rowed from the Main, up the 
Ludwigs Canal, and down the Danube to Vienna, 

R. 8. Cuarnock. 


George Manners (2™ 8. i. $314.) —I can sup- 
py X. (1.) with a slight reminiscence of George 


| Tickle (whole length). 


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allusions that were caustic, but good-humoured. 
He occasionally paused in his tirade against luxury 
and gluttony, for the purpose of stretching his 
hand behind him to the refreshments, and hel 

ing himself to wine and dainties,—an act which in 
itself formed a satirical commentary to the Puritan 
harangue. Monson. 

Gatton Park. 


Gainsborough the Painter (2™ §. i. 281.) — Mr. 
Futcuer will find in the Garrick Correspondence 
four letters by Gainsborough; and in the Life 
and Times of Nollekens, by Antiquity Smith, are 
many very interesting particulars of the painter. 
Dulwich Gallery contains four works by Gains- 
borough, being portraits of J. P. Loutherbourg, 
R.A., Thomas Linley, Esq., Mrs. Moody and 
children (whole length), Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs. 
The latter picture is one 
of the very finest of Gainsborough’s portrait pieces, 
and more than justifies the high encomiums passed 
upon him as a painter by Sir Joshua Reynolds 
in his “ Fourteenth Discourse,” which is entirely 
devoted to the artistic abilities of Gainsborough. 

The Catalogues of the annual Exhibitions of 
Ancient Masters at the British Institution will 
furnish much information concerning the works of 
Gainsborough, as the name of the owner is always 
given. Epwin Rorrs. 


Grey Beards (2™ S. i. 293.) — Your corre- 
spondent may see two of these on sale at a shop in 
Holborn; if he does not find them there, he is 
welcome to inspect several specimens in my pos- 
session at No. 1. Lovell’s Court. Caartes Resp. 


Jugs may be seen at the Museum of Acono- 


| mic Geology, and also at the Marlborough House 


fanners, but I fear it will be considered a very | 


slight one. 

About forty years ago, when Albinia Dowager 
Lady Buckinghamshire inhabited, near Grosvenor 
Place, a suburban villa, which has now disap- 
peared among the buildings of Belgravia, I met at 
one of her celebrated masquerade breakfasts, Mr. 
Manners, the editor of The Satirist. He came in 


the character (which he admirably supported) of 


an itinerant preacher. He was, if my memory 
serves me right, a remarkably tall distinguished- 
looking man, but he disguised his person thus: 
standing inside of a tub, which hid his own legs, 
he had short false ones attached before him, that 
appeared to stand upon the top of the barrel, and 
he concealed the disproportion of his figure by 
a clerical gown. He could lift up the tub by 
handles at the sides, and thus shuffle about the 
grounds ; but in support of the character he as- 
sumed, he placed himself for the most part near 
the refreshment table, where he held forth with a 
great deal of wit on the fashionable follies of the 
day ; seasoning his discourse with some personal 





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collection: they are very common. CENTURION. 


Insecure Envelopes (2 S. i. 292.) —I can give 
H. B. C. no other information about the “ metallic 
safety” envelope, than that I never considered it 
safe ; that is, in the sense in which H. B. C. em- 
ploys the word, and which I suppose to be as 
equivalent to security against any curious or dis- 
honest attempt to open the letter. To describe a 
process by which an adhesive or sealed envelope 
may be opened, without risk of detection, is, to 
say the least of it, not very prudent. I think it is 
just as bad as delivering public lectures on poi- 
sons, of which there have been too many examples 
during the last few months. 

Of the hundreds of thousands of letters dis- 
patched through the Post Office every day, per- 


| haps there are not five per cent. of the whole 


number which are of the least value, or of the 


| slightest interest, to any other persons than the 


writers or those addressed. For convenience, 
cheapness, and comparative security, adhesive en- 
velopes may, therefore, be used—say for nineteen 





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letters in every twenty. As a general rule, it 
should be noticed, that the thinner the paper of 
which such envelopes are made, the greater the 
security against their being fraudulentiy opened. 
To me a letter quite safe against prying curi- 
osity, or dishonest fingers, so far as its contents 
are concerned, there is nothing equal to good seal- 
ing-war. Let the wax be well heated, applied 
under as well as above the lap, worked into an 
uniform mass, and impressed with a sharply-cut 
seal; and I think it will puzzle the most expert 
at such dirty work, to get at the inside of the 
letter without leaving some very significant marks. 


N. H. L. RB. 


In the Strand, éwo doors west of Temple Bar, 
on the north side, the metallic capsule envelopes 
were sold a few months ago; they were arranged 
in the window, and plenty of persons were “ sow- 
ing gape seed” at them. Anon. 


Hydrophobic Patients Smothered (1* S. v. 10. ; 
vi. 206. 298. 438.) — Several communications 
have appeared in “ N. & Q.” to ascertain whether 
in cases of decided hydrophobia the patients were 
ever put to death by smothering or otherwise, or 
whether such opinion were a mere popular de- 
lusion. That death by suffocation has been prac- 
tised formerly, history affords us many precedents, 
not to mention the instance of Edward V. and his 
brother; and the procuring of death as a ter- 
mination of the ouliaiegp of a miserable case, is 
thus described in the London Magazine for 1738, 
p- 44. : 

“ One Brounsell, a labourer, who had been bitten by a 
mad dog, was directly sent to be dipped in the salt water, 
and returned to Bedford; when the bite healed up, and 
he was to all appearance well, but he was afterwards 
taken ill on a Friday, and the Saturday was raving mad, 
barking and howling like a dog, and biting at every- 
thing in his way. He had intervals that he was sensible, 
when he desired to be tied down to the bed to prevent his 
doing mischief; and begged not to be smothered, as 
people are in his unhappy case, but desired to be bled to 
death. Accordingly on Saturday night he had a vein 
opened by a surgeon of that place, and bled till Sunday 
morning, when he expired in that miserable condition.” 


F. 


Construction of Quadrants (2™ S. i. 175.) — 
Dr. Tucker will find an account of Sutton’s and 
Collins’s quadrants in Dr. Brewster's Edinburgh 
Encyclopedia, art. “ Quadrants,” and also draw- 
ings of the same. There are also, I believe, old, 
and now scarce, pamphlets descriptive of the above 
instruments. N.S. Hermexen. 

Sidmouth. 


Sir Henry Gould, Knt. (2™ S. i. 295.) — Have 
ou not attributed to the justice of the Common 
leas, who died in 1794, the paternity that be- 

longs to his namesake, the judge of the King’s 


Bench, who died in 1710? ‘The first of the four 








wives of Lieutenant-General Fielding, who died 
in 1740, was Sarah, the daughter of the judge of 
King’s Bench, and their son was the author of 
| Tom Jones, &c. The judge of the Common 
| Pleas was of Stapleford Abbotts, Essex, and left 
| two daughters, one married to the Hon. Temple 
Luttrell, and the other to the Earl of Cavan. (See 
| Brydges’s Collins’s Peerage, iii. 277., and Gent. 
Mag. \xiv. 283.) On the announcement of the 
| death of Admiral Sir Davidge Gould in 1847, the 
| St. James's Chronicle says he was the last male 
| descendant of the ancient Somersetshire family 
| of Gould, which enumerated two distinguished 
| judges among its members. Does the pedigree in 
Phelps’s Somersetshire show in what relationship 
they stood to each other ? Epwarp Foss. 

[On turning again to Phelps’s Somersetshire, it is clear 
we have confused the two chief-justices. According to 
the pedigree, Sir Henry Gould of the Common Pleas was 
the son of Sir Henry of the King’s Bench, and conse- 
quently uncle of Henry Fielding the novelist. } 


Greek Fire (2™ §. i. 316.)— Your corre- 
spondent T. Lampray will find some account of 
the “invention and use of the Greek fire” in 
Gibbon’s Decline and Full of the Roman Empire, 
vol. x. pp. 14. 18., edit. 1839. E. C. Harineron. 

The Close, Exeter. 


English Orders (2™ §. i. 290.) — Mr. Fraser 
seems to have mistaken the meaning of the author 
of The Origin and Developments of Anglicanism, 
who does not admit the validity of Anglican 
Orders, nor touch that point at all, but confines 
himself in the passages adduced to the question of 
mission or jurisdiction. When that author ob- 
serves that “Orders were indeed perpetuated,” 
he speaks not of the present Anglican clergy, but 
of those Catholic priests who had been ordained 
before they became Protestants. Thus he asks, 
“ When they apostatised, did this mission last?” 
And he answers, “Obviously not.” He is evi- 
dently not speaking of their orders being per- 
petuated in successive Anglican clergy, but of 
their own individual sacramental character of 
priests remaining indelible in them. 

Mr. Fraser, therefore, is not correct in pre- 
suming that our controversialists hold the Anglican 
orders to be valid, though irregular. And as he 
desires to be “enlightened upon these points, 
strictly as matters of fact,” I beg to assure him 
that the practical conclusion of Catholics is, that 
such orders are invalid; and in conformity with 
this, every Anglican clergyman who enters the 
sacred ministry in the Catholic Church is reor- 
dained ; and this not conditionally, as if the matter 
were doubtful, but absolutely, as a mere layman. 

F. C., Husensetru, D.D. 


Dr. Samuel Barnard and Archbishop Abbot 
(2™ §. i. 123.)—In reply to Mr. Sremman’s 




















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Query as to how Dr. Barnard was related to 
Archbishop Abbot, I beg to say that I have ex- 
amined the elaborate pedigrees in my possession, 
and also the archbishop’s will, but do not find he 
was any relation whatever. The archbishop’s 
brother, Sir Maurice, married Margaret, daughter 
of Barthol. Barnes, of London, merchant, and I 
think an error must have arisen through Barnard 
being confused with Barnes. 

The archbishop’s chaplain, Mr. Edward Abbot, 
was his cousin; he was precentor of Wells and 
vicar of Ealing, afterwards of All Hallows, Bark- 
ing, where he died. The archbishop devises lega- 


cies to his two chaplains, but only mentions Mr. | 


Edward Abbot by name, to whom he gives a ring 
of forty shillings. I therefore think the statement 
that Dr. Barnard was one of the archbishop’s 


nearest relations, must be an error, although I have 


no doubt but that he was one of his chaplains. 
I shall be glad to correspond with Mz. Srety- 


MAN on the subject if he wishes to know more of | 


the archbishop’s family. Joun T. Anpport. 


Darlington. 


“ Give place, ye ladies all” (1* §. xi. 384.) —I 
fancy these lines, inquired for by Mormon, are a 
modernisation of — 

“ Give place, you ladies, and be gone, 
Boast not yourselves at all ! 
For here at hand approacheth one 
Whose face will stain you all.” 

They are preserved in MS. Harl. 1703, and 
have been printed in Park's edition of Walpole’s 
Royal and Noble Authors; Ellis’s Specimens of 
the Early English Poets; Evans's 
edit. of 1810, &e. The author was old John Hey- 


Old Ballads, | 





| comforts, &c, 


wood, the court wit and epigrammatist ; and the | 


subject of the poem, the Princess Mary, after- 
wards Queen Mary. Epwarp F. Rimpavtr. 


The Rev. Mr. Mattinson (2 §. i. 92.) — Your 
correspondent Anuba would probably be glad to 
hear a fuller account of this clergyman, which I 
extract from what I believe is a rare book, viz. 
A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmore- 
land, and Lancashire, &c. By James Clarke. The 
2nd edition, 1789; it is as follows: 

“The church [of Patterdale] isa perpetual curacy, and 
was worth about 13/. per annum till the year 1743, when 
the interest of 200/. was allotted to it by the governors of 
Queen Anne’s bounty; with this addition it is now worth 
about 242 perannum. Mr. Mattinson, the late incum- 
bent, died about the year 1770. It appears that he 
buried and married both his father and mother [ ? }, bap- 
tized his own wife when an infant one month old, and 
when she became marriageable, published the banns him- 
self. 
tithe wool which fell to his lot, viz. one third; and of so 
saving and penurious a disposition was he, that he died 
worth more money than his whole income would have 
gained him had it been ldid out at compound interest. 
' 10002} <A school which he taught added about 5/. to 


He and his wife carded and spun that part of the | 


his income; but even this will hardly account for the 
sums he left at his death, which happened in the ninety- 
sixth year of his age, after having served this curacy 
fifty-six years. His wife was equally eminent as a mid- 
wife, performing her operations for the small sum of one 
shilling: but as, according to ancient custom, she was 
likewise cook at the christening dinner, she received some 
culinary perquisites that somewhat increased her profits. 
On these occasions, none more devoutly prayed for the 
speedy recovery of the good wife; a quick return of these 
On the day of her marriage, Mrs. Mattin- 
son’s father boasted that his two daughters were married 
to the two best men in Patterdale, the priest and the 
bagpiper. At the priest’s death his widow and children 
spent all he had amassed, and she was obliged to seek 
support in the College of Matrons at Wigton.”—Pp. 31. 32. 


By the bye, can any one tell me when the first 
edition of this work was published ? 

Epwin ARMISTEAD. 

Springfield Mount, Leeds. 

[ The date on the original title-page is 1787; but some 
copies have a reprinted title-page with the date 1789, 
purporting to be a second edition, but containing no other 
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Miscellaneous, 


NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 


We know no writer of the present day who can illus- 
trate a subject with more quaint learning and pleasant 
fancy than Dr. Doran, Indulge his taste for a title which 
shall smack of the conceit of Old Fuller, and then let him 
ransack his brain, which is not as “dry as the remainder 
bisket after a voyage ;” and what with pleasant illustrative 
anecdote, striking historical reminiscences, and a plenteous 
sprinkling of snatches of old song, he will produce you a 
volume unequalled for fireside reading, or railway pastime, 
and which shall have the additional merit of being in- 
structive as well as amusing. His Knights and their 
Days will, we answer for it, bear out this description ; and 
such of our readers as may be tempted by this account of 
it to turn over its gossiping pages, will, we think, agree 
with us in pronouncing it a capital mixture of old-world 
histories and modern fancy. 

Our readers may remember that a discussion was com- 
menced some few months since in these columns on the 
authorship of the Waverley Novels. We brought that 
discussion to a close, perhaps somewhat abruptly. Mr. 
Fitzpatrick, who started the game, has therefore hunted 
it down in a separate pamphiet, entitled Who wrote the 
Waverley Novels? Being an Inve stigation into certain 
mysterious Circumstances attending their Production, and an 
Inquiry into the literary Aid which Sir Walter Scott may 
have received from other Persons. Mr. Fitzpatrick has 
collected his materials with great industry, and arranged 
them with great ingenuity; but as, in spite of all his 
obligations to preceding playwrights and chroniclers, we 
hold Shakspeare to have written the plays which all 
the world recognize as Shakspeare’s, so, after reading all 
the evidence which Mr. Fitzpatrick has produced, we 
feel that there is but one answer to his inquiry, “ Who 
wrote the Waverley Novels?” and that answer is, “ Sir 
Walter Scott.” 

The North British Review for May is before us. Among 
other capital articles in it, we may mention the opening 
one on Plays and Puritans, that on the Life and Writings 
of Justice Talfourd, and one on Macaulay, in which, 





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while full justice is done to the merits of that writer, 
some of the graver faults of his “ historical painting” are 
clearly pointed out. There is also a well-considered paper 
on Outrages on Women, and the difficulties of finding 


such punishments for their offences as shall put an end to | 


them. Papers on British New Testament Criticism, 
Grote’s History of Greece, Indian Literature, and Weather 
and its Prognostics, make up the remainder of the 
number. 

Time was when we looked upon Theobald, Steevens, 
and Malone as the great Commentators and Illustrators 
of Shakspeare. But a new race has arisen within these 


few vears, and we, having carefully inspected the edition of 


The Winter's Tule just illustrated by Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
Kean, Mr. George Scharf, and Mr. Grieve, the inimitable 
scene painter, are inclined to pronounce it the best edition 
which has yet been submitted to the public. To speak 
seriously, however, we doubt if any drama was ever pro- 
duced with so much attention to accuracy of detail, 
with such varied dramatic effects, and altogether with 
such a combination of efferts to realise the scene which 
the poet wished to bring before his audience. This 
notice—the first of any dramatic performance which has 
ever appeared in our columns—is drawn from us because 
we think The Winter's Tale, at the Princessa’s Theatre, 
the pleasantest lesson on Archeology we ever received : 
and what we have enjoyed ourselves, we wish others to 
be sharers in. i: 

Books Recetven — Gulielmi Shaksperii Julivs Caesar 
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advocating, which he does well in his prefatory notice, 
the increased employment of translation, written and 
oral, as a means of acquiring a dead language. Mr. 
Denison’s remarks on this point seem very just, and well 
deserving the attention of the Masters of our great 
Schools. 

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1856. 


Hotes. 
PETER THE GREAT AT SAYES COURT, DEPTFORD. 

In the latter part of the seventeenth century, 
Sayes Court, Deptford, the seat of the celebrated 
John Evelyn, was honoured by the temporary 
residence of the Czar of Muscovy, Peter the 
Great, who was then on a visit to this country. 
He was desirous of obtaining a knowledge of ship- 
building, and consequently chose this spot in order 
that he might be near the dockyard at Deptford, 
where he would have ample opportunity for pur- 
suing his studies in naval architecture. Until 
about this period Evelyn had made Sayes Court 
his residence, where he bestowed great pains in 
cultivating and laying out his garden. In 1696, 
he let the premises to Captain Benbow, afterwards 
Admiral, of whom he thus speaks in his Diary : 

“T have let my house to Captain Benbow, and have 
the mortification of seeing every day much of my former 
labours and expense there impairing for want of a more 
polite tenant.” 

In the commencement of the year 1698, Ben- 
bow underlet the house, together with all his fur- 
niture, to the Czar, but he soon had to regret the 
accommodation he had afforded to his Majesty, 
for in the month of May in that year we find him 
petitioning the Lords of the Treasury that com- 
pensation be made him for the damage the Czar 
had done to his house, garden, and furniture. 

The proceedings on this petition, which I have 
made the subject of this communication, afford 
interesting details of the dilapidations caused by 
the Czar's tenancy of Sayes Court, and I believe 
now meet the public eye for the first time. 

The petition is as follows: 

“To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his 
Majesty's Treasury. 
“The humble Peticion of John Benbow, 
“ Sheweth, 

“That your Petitioner did some time since, take the 
House of John Evelyn, Esquire, call’d Sayes Court at 
Deptford, and is bound by Agreement to keep the same 
(together with the Gi irdens), &c. in Good, and Sufficient 
Order and Repair; And to leave them in the same at the 
Expiration of his Terme; And so it is (May it pleas your 
Honours), That his Czarish Majestie coming to your 
Petitioner about Three Months agoe, did request the use 
of his House, dureing the time of his Stay in England, as 
also the Furniture in it, as it stood. Hee freely con- 
sentented * thereto, and imediately removed his Family 
out of it, and gave him posession; Soposing it might be a 
pleasure to his good Master the King, and that he would 
have used his house, Goods, and Gardens, otherwise than 
he finds he hath; which are in so bad a condition that he 
can searsly describe it to your Honours: besides much of 
the Furniture broke, lost, and destroy’d. 

“Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays 


that your Honours will please to order a | 








* Sic in orig. 


Survey upon the House, &c.: to see what 
damages he hath sustained and that Repar- 
ation be made him, that so he may not be a 
Sufferer for his Kindness; 

“ And he shall pray, &c.” 

On the sixth of May this petition was sent to 
Sir Christopher Wren, “who was directed to survey 
the house, gardens, and goods, and to report how 
much the damage done by the Czar and his retinue 
amounted to. Within a very few days Wren, 
with the assistance of Mr. Sewell, of the moving 
wardrobe, and Mr. London, the king’s gardener, 
made his survey, and estimated the total damages 
at 3501. 9s. 6d., the full particulars of which ap- 
pear from the following documents: 


“ May 9th, 1698, 


“ Account of Dammages done to the building and Fences by 
the Czar of Moscory and his Retinue at Sayes Court, 
in Deptford : 





as ° 
“ For 150 yards of Painting at s FF Be 
For 244 yards of W hiting i in the House - 2 08 
For 300 Squares in the Windows - - 0 15 0 
For 20 Quarries - - - .s © 3 ¢ 
For 3 Brass Locks - - - + 2 Bs 
For 9 more that’s dammag’d - ‘Fes 
For keys w anting toallthe said Locks - 1 0 0 
For 90 foot of Dutch Tyles to repaire in 
Chimneys - - 1 10 0 
For 100 foot of Flemish Tyle paving to re- 
paire - - . S. “ae 
For 90 foot of Purbeck pav ing to nepal in 
ye Kitchin 1 10 0 
For mending the Stov es the re - - 0 10 0 
For plaining the Dressers - - - 60100 
For repairing an oven dammaged - - 010 0 
All the floores dammag’d by Grease and 
Inck . - - ee 
For 2 new Deale Doses a - .e 2 8 @ 
For a new Floore to a Bogg House 010 0 
For repairing 300 foot of flint and Pebble 
paving - 1 0 0 
For 240 foot running of Posts and Pales of 
Firr - . - - 60 0 0 
For 170 foot running of Posts and Raile of 
Oake - - a .@& ¢ 
For 100 foot running of bender board in ye 
Garden - ~ 1 13 8 
For new pollishing 4 marble foot paces ond 
a Marble Table - 1 4 0 
For 3 wheelbarrows broke and Lost ° -~ 2 sq 
107 7 0 


Measured by William Dickinson Clarke. 

An Inventory of Admirall Benbow’s Goods that is Lost, 
Broake, and damage done to them while the Czar of 
Moscovey Lodged theire, is valued as followeth, 


. 


& ea @ 
“The Bedchamber hung with blew paragon 
and a blew paragon Bed lined with a 
Buff Colloured silke all much stained and 
_spoyled - - - - - 4 10 00 


” Ww e read that one of the ¢ Cz zar’s favourite amusements 
at Sayes Court consisted in being wheeled through Eve- 
lyn’s famous holly hedge. Perhaps the barrows men- 
tioned in this item were the identical vehicles in which 
His Majesty rode. 





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NOTES AND QUERIES. 


[2"4S. Ne 18., May 38, °56, 





while full justice is done to the merits of that writer, 
some of the graver faults of his “ historical painting” are 
clearly pointed out. There is also a well-considered paper 
on Outrages on Women, and the difficulties of finding 
such punishments for their offences as shall put an end to 
them. Papers on British New Testament Criticism, 
Grote’s History of Greece, Indian Literature, and Weather 
and its Prognostics, make up the remainder of the 
number. 

Time was when we looked upon Theobald, Steevens, 
and Malone as the great Commentators and I|lustrators 
of Shakspeare. But a new race has arisen within these 
few vears, and we, having carefully inspected the edition of 
The Winter's Tale just illustrated by Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
Kean, Mr. George Scharf, and Mr. Grieve, the inimitable 
scene painter, are inclined to pronounce it the best edition 
which has yet been submitted to the public. To speak 
seriously, however, we doubt if any drama was ever pro- 
duced ‘with so much attention to accuracy of detail, 
with such varied dramatic effects, and altogether with 
such a combination of efforts to realise the scene which 
the poet wished to bring before his audience. This 
notice—the first of any dramatic performance which has 
ever appeared in our columns—is drawn from us because 
we think The Winter's Tale, at the Princess’s Theatre, 
the pleasantest lesson on Archeology we ever received ; 
and what we have enjoyed ourselves, we wish others to 
be sharers in. she 

Books Recetvep — Gulielmi Shaksperii Julivs Caesar 
Latiné reddidit Henricus Denison. Coll. Om. An. apud 
Oxon Mr. Denison has apparently pub- 
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advocating, which he does well in his prefatory notice, 
the increased employment of translation, written and 
oral, as a means of acquiring a dead language. Mr. 
Denison’s remarks on this point seem very just, and well 
deserving the attention of the Masters of our great 
Schools. 

The Geographical Word Expositor, or Names and Terms 
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